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[User169]

Not to mention that football is a team sport, which adds another layer of complexity and making the use of drugs less effective, as you'd need to dope the entire squad.

That's not unknown - try reading Tony Cascarino's account of his time at Marseille and Bernard Tapie's antics. Talking of Tapie, doesn't that bring us back to cycling....?

 

[Tetedelacourse]

I might attempt some shoogly research along these lines next week if I have time, and will post back if there's anything of interest.

Bloody hell this is difficult.

So far I've looked through the FA's charter on drug testing and nowhere does it mention the number of players tested. It does however state that blood doping is prohibited, which is contrary to belief in some quarters.

I also came across a piece of independent research from 2003 ( can't find more recent, yet...) which stated that football has more tests than any other sport, but due to the number of players, this equates to around 1 drug test per player every 3 seasons!

Still looking...

 

[Tetedelacourse]

BTW any other sports I should concentrate on? I'm thinking

tdf,

US Open

Premiership

Wimbledon

Monaco Grand Prix

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Wimbledon 2006

In singles matches, male and female, 171 drug tests were carried out over a total of 253 matches. Which is 68% of matches played. They use the standard WADA approved list of prohibited substances, same as the premiership. There were a few positive A tests from what I could see but no positive Bs. Don't remember hearing about any of those though.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

US Open 2006

Zip

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Formula One

They possibly follow the IOC's guidelines on ant-doping but I can't find anything in their rules and regulations.

 

[Tetedelacourse]

Cadel Evans clearly does not rate my extensive research on this subject! Or even worse, he does not regularly check these fabulous forum pages

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/20082007/58/tour-de-france-evans-eyes-double.html

"I've never seen an article written about how stringent the testing is in cycling compared to any other sport in the world."

 

[Chuffy]

Cadel Evans, whinging???????? So hard to imagine my least favourite Austalian wheel-sucker actually complaining about something.

 

[johnr]

Thanks for that Chuffy. Are you going to rise to the challenge and work out the precise fraction of a percent of athletics medal winners have been exposed as cheats? We all need a hobby for the long winter nights.