Wednesday, 25 July 2012

London 2012 will see the most stringent anti-doping tests in history



More than 1,000 people, including 150 doctors, will collect and analyze some 6,250 blood and urine samples over the course of the 2012 Summer Olympics during the most aggressive anti-doping campaign the Olympics has ever seen.

More than 10,000 athletes will compete in the 2012 Summer Games, and nearly half of them -- including every medal winner -- will be tested for 240 banned substances under the most aggressive anti-doping campaign in Olympics history.


Collecting and analysing those blood and urine samples, some 6,250 in all, will fall to a team of 1,000 people working in a nondescript laboratory north of London. The lab, provided by the pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and run by King's College London, will run 24/7 as it processes as many as 400 samples daily.


By: Beth Carter, Edited by: Ian Steadman


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via Wired.co.uk



http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/25/london-2012-anti-doping

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