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Article: Sports doping in the Olympic Year, message getting out - by Peter Berry Ottaway.
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- Nutraceuticals International
- Article date:
- November 1, 2008
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The XXIX Olympiad held in Beijing, China, in the summer had a number of remarkable aspects, not the least being the considerably reduced publicity given to sports doping. This was in contrast to the previous five Olympiads where there were a number of athletes failing the doping tests, either immediately before or during the Olympics. Doping scandals did not mar the coverage of the events in Beijing and this appears to reflect the results of a number of initiatives undertaken in many countries over the past few years. The indications are that the levels of testing by the World Anti-Doping Agency have not been significantly reduced, so it would appear that the messages are ...
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