Anti-doping analysis and the Olympics


“The fight against doping, unlike medical practice, must work with an infinitesimal margin of uncertainty.” The fight against doping has always been, and will remain, linked in peoples’ minds to the image of cops and robbers. For a long time, the ‘cops’ were always lagging behind the ‘robbers’, running after them but never managing to catch up. For over a decade now, we have seen this trend being reversed, which does not mean, however, that we are ahead of the sophisticated cheaters, preventing them from committing all their crimes. The sophistication of the tools provided to us by science is...

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