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NEWS: The Australian 14 Dec 00: Drug used at Sydney games now banned

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ACTOVEGIN, officially listed as a banned substance yesterday, was brought into Australia for the Sydney Olympics, a leading IOC official said. The IOC medical commission said the drug, containing extracts of calf's blood, was a form of blood doping.
"I think we need to be very precise that the position of the medical commission is that this is a banned substance," panel chairman Prince Alexandre de Merode said.
"There may have been a bit of hesitation a few months ago. This hesitation no longer exists today."
He said some teams brought actovegin to the Games with the approval of Australian customs, who did not consider the product illegal. It was not banned at the time.
Actovegin, manufactured in Norway, is injected into the body and improves the circulation of oxygen in the blood in a manner similar to the banned drug EPO, or erythropoetin, which builds endurance.
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Full article at: http://theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1517160%255E2722,00.html
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As with any drugs used in sport for perormance enhancing, it takes years and years of study, trial and approvals for any one to be banned.
Like the sydney games, everyone knows all athletes were taking some form of drugs, which are not banned, but in years to come may well be!
Put for example the EPO hype. The test that the IOC have for screening this drug on athletes picks up cases where its been administered within last 3 days, whereas EPO can be taken one month before a so called test, still perform its enhancing abilities and then remain in the system undetected.
If a more stringent test was out, there would be no real honest medal winners unfortunately.
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[This message has been edited by sleeper (edited 16 December 2000).]
 
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