TweetSome 4,500 drug tests will be performed in Beijing, 25 percent more than at the 2004 Olympics. About 900 of those will be blood tests, and another 700 to 800 will check for EPO. Who will be tested? The top five finishers in each event and two randomly selected competitors. Each will provide a urine sample, a blood sample or both. The samples will be transported — by armed guards — from 41 collection stations to a facility near the National Stadium where some 150 scientists and volunteers will work 24 hours a day.
That sounds like and awful waste of money and time when they can't catch most of them anyway.
Not to mention the gene manipulation!
Simply make the drug use allowable and the playing field is even.
If a person chooses not to use - that's their prerogative.
And for anyone who claims that it's not fair because some people respond better to steroids than others....well some people respond better to weigth training than other, just like some people repond better to getting fat by eating pizza and sitting on the couch.
Sal