By Trel
Lurking in the shadows of the Summer Olympics, Men’s Figure Skating is getting a makeover for the ages. Olympic Athletes are always looking for that next big leap in technology due to the ever constraining, ever more diligent, technologically advanced drug testing policies that seem to take away every record shattering performance and accompanying Gold medal with a “positive” test for either steroids or extra red blood cells.
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By Trel
While Olympic coaches move to gain youth advantage, individual athletes move to gain any advantage that won’t get them disqualified.
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By Carol Pearson
Tired of having to sort through countless tests, not to mention the appeals by athletes and press conferences by various parties, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has developed a new way to deal with the doping issue. The new system will be tried out in the 2008 Summer Olympics, with a possible 2010 Winter Games trial depending on how things go this year.
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By Victor Li
Would-be Olympians have breathed a huge sigh of relief following the IAAF’s ruling that double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius is ineligible for the Beijing Olympics because his prosthetics give him an unfair advantage. The International Association of Athletics Federations had found that the kinetic energy generated from spring-action of Pistorius’ “Cheetah” blade prosthetics, allowed him to expend less energy than able-bodied sprinters. However, the IAAF found that the blades constituted an illegal performance enhancer that give Pistorius a significant advantage over his competitors.
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