Tracing doping use by amateur athletes from wastewater
Hmm, How effective is this? I recently watched ICARUS and I have been reading a lot about doping and how athletes circumvent the tests done by WADA labs ( World Anti Doping Agency). I have a couple of questions regarding this and in no particular order of importance<p>(1) Should a state decide to implement something like this, isn&#x27;t this some sort of privacy violation by the state? People could have been prescribed these Anabolics by a physician too, don&#x27;t they also come under the scanner?<p>(2) Also, I don&#x27;t clearly understand the sampling here, tons of gallons get pumped into the wastewater system. How much quantity of samples would be collected for testing purposes? and what is the frequency of these samples being collected?<p>(3) Please totally excuse my ignorance here, the major banned substances for which athletes have been banned are &quot;Methylhexaneamine&quot;, &quot;Methenolone&quot;,&quot;Oxandrolone&quot;, and a lot of &quot;Stanozolol&quot; and &quot;Turinabol&quot; ( I m getting all this from this wiki <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Doping_at_the_Olympic_Games#Disqualified_2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Doping_at_the_Olympic_Games#Di...</a>). The table in the paper doesn&#x27;t seem to mention any of these substances. Are they mentioned under a different name?<p>(4) Also, in the light of new information (ie) state-sponsored doping, Lance Armstrong escaping some 500 Lab tests &amp; going completing uncaught by WADA and so many other labs around the world, as a spectator I already know that a ton of Olympic athletes are doping. Isn&#x27;t the actual problem trying to prove that &quot;individual&quot; athletes are doping? A collective evidence is probably not as useful anymore since all watchdogs, sports committees and spectators are more skeptical from the get go.