So what do you think is the number one threat when it comes to stopping and catching dopers in sports according to United States Anti-Doping Agency chief executive Travis T. Tygart?
You'd think the answer to that question might be the athletes themselves.
You know, following the basic rule of supply and demand.
If there were no demand by athletes willing to cheat using performance enhancing drugs, the problem would immediate sort itself out. In other words, no demand no more doping supply.
But according to Tygart the biggest threat to anti-doping efforts is not on the demand side of the equation, but instead on the supply side.
"Unfortunately, what you now see are rogue laboratories, rogue doctors that athletes are able to find and then pay to obtain things that they think will be undetectable," Tygart recently said.
"We're a relatively young entity, we've not yet had our 10-year anniversary like WADA but we've come in and we've changed the culture within track and field," he added. "That's not to say there may not be cheats out there or that the temptation to cheat is not there but what it means is that we've given those clean athletes, who want to do it the right way, hope that they can get on the starting line and be successful without having to cheat."
According to USA Today:
"Tygart said USADA had already made substantial advances in eliminating doping in sports, or leveling the playing field for clean athletes. He likened track and field in the United States during the 1990s to bodybuilding, for the prevalence of doping, but said the sport had since been transformed."
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