The US Anti Doping Agency on October 10 made public hundreds of
pages of documents of evidence including financial payments,
emails, scientific data and laboratory test results that further
prove the use, possession and distribution of performance
enhancing drugs (PEDs) by Lance Armstrong and the US Postal
Service team that won seven Tour De France crowns. Included was
testimony given by eleven of his teammates that Armstrong and
the other riders used steroids and growth hormones. Further,
they performed transfusions of their own blood in a well
organized program to enhance their performance over the grueling
three week event. Despite hundreds of tests performed in and out
of competition over many years, these men evaded detection. How
did they do that? History of Performance Enhancing Drug usage
Doping in sport is not a new phenomenon. Ancient Olympians were
reputed to eat a lizard meat that provided a special edge. The
popularity of endurance sports at the turn of the 20th century
gave rise to open usage of