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This is Effective?
2005-04-17 10:07
by Will Carroll

According to documents available on their own web site, the US Anti-Doping Association (USADA) performed 8,051 doping control tests (what you and I call urinalysis). If you page down far enough, you'll find that there were 41 failures. These include three "non-analytical positives". This term is the circumstancial evidence of the drug testing world, as detailed here by Dave Kindred. Three other failures were refusals and one was a simple no-show.

If this is the gold standard they want to put onto baseball and other sports in the so-called "Unified Drug Policy", I'll say no thank you. You do the math and tell me which policy is more effective.

Comments
2005-04-17 11:54:56
1.   Ken Arneson
Funny font for the tagline on that USADA site. I thought for a second it said: "My health. My spork."

I thought, not only are they regulating what athletes can put in their bodies, they're regulating the utensils they use, too?

2005-04-17 17:07:20
2.   Cliff Corcoran
"8,051 doping control tests" when and of whom?
2005-04-17 20:28:27
3.   Jon T
Will - what, if anything, do you have to say about the story out of Duke University that Bill Hillier, the coach of their baseball team, either explicitly or implicitly encouraged players to use steroids, and that as many as 40% of his players were juiced up?

Here's a link to the story if needed: http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/04/15/425fb51164a85

2005-04-18 07:16:45
4.   Will Carroll
Jon - I've read the stories but don't know any more than that. The lack of positive tests sticks with me. I personally don't put much stock in circumstancial evidence; Mark McGwire may have juiced, but since I have no proof, I can't make that final decision. Same here. The NCAA program has been laughably bad. 40% seems high and Duke hasn't exactly been a slugger's paradise. It's a disturbing story if it's only half true, especially about the coach.

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