Doping test technologies are improving, but athletes are finding new ways to bypass them. Find out the secrets of professional athletes to hide the use of anabolic steroids. The search for ways to conceal the facts of taking illegal drugs began simultaneously with the introduction of doping tests. At first, athletes were confident that the use of diuretics would solve this problem. But this step proved to be ineffective.
Ways to conceal illegal drugs
Today, athletes use the following methods of cheating doping control:
- The use of esters with a short half-life.
- Diuretic drugs are on the prohibited list and this method no longer works.
- The simultaneous use of polycyclic compounds and AAS can distort the results of mass spectrum analysis and chromatography. These drugs include, for example, Bromantane, although now it is also banned for use by athletes.
- Probenecid (already included in the number of prohibited) can reduce the rate of extrusion of metabolites of anabolic steroids in the urine.
Most of the described methods have already lost their relevance. This forces us to look for new ways of concealing doping, and they exist. For example, the use of testosterone can be hidden by using special plasters, replacing essential drugs with tablets, or injecting simultaneously with the steroid epitestosterone in order to maintain the necessary ratio between these substances. Today, pharmaceutical companies are trying to find new ways to circumvent doping controls, but this takes a long time. Often, attempts to hide prohibited substances occur at the stages of passing tests by replacing them with "pure" ones. For this, various methods are used, for example, catheterization and secret belts. It is not difficult to guess the essence of these methods, and for this reason there is no point in dwelling on them. Most of these methods are well known to people who take tests and it is practically impossible to deceive them in this way. The list of prohibited drugs is constantly growing, and the regulatory authorities are also working towards finding workarounds in order to prevent deception.
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