ATHLETES are gambling with their health as they seek performance-enhancing drugs that will not be picked up by dope tests. This was the message from scientists and physicians at the Hormones, Nutrition and Physical Performance conference in Turin, Italy, last week.
Speaking prior to the start of the Winter Olympics in Turin this weekend, conference delegates said they suspected that many athletes competing at the games could have taken performance-enhancing drugs at some stage in their careers. While amateurs and younger athletes still use anabolic steroids, which are easily picked up by drug tests (see “Everybody’s doing it”), most…
