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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