Who will win the drugs race?
Useful Sites
How performance-enhancing drugs work (How Stuff Works, USA)
Discusses why some athletes use drugs, what the major classes of drugs and their side effects are, and how drug use is tested.
The 2009 prohibited list (World Anti-Doping Agency)
Lists the prohibited substances in sport.
Drugs in sport research (National Measurement Institute, Australia)
Describes research on the detection of erythropoietin, human growth hormone, anabolic steroids and administered endogenous steroids.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (transcripts)
Doping for gold (Catalyst, 31 July 2008)
Discusses gene doping for performance enhancement in sport.
The genetic basis for ability in sports (The Science Show, 2 December 2006)
Reports on a database of sportspeople and the genes they have in common to find out what makes some people good at sport.
Doping
tests may fail in court (News in Science, 29 July 2004)
Looks at the difficulties in producing scientifically valid tests for
drugs taken by athletes for performance enhancement.
Tarnished
gold (Four Corners, 23 March 2004)
Investigates the use of drugs in sport and Australia's approach to the
problem.
Olympic challenge: transcript (28 March 2000, Frontline Scotland, BBC news, UK)
A program about the increase in positive drug tests for the banned anabolic steroid, nandrolone. Includes comments from athletes, coaches, sports administrators, manufacturers of sports supplements, medical doctors and scientists.
Page updated February 2009.