why cant they just test everybody who wins a medal, or do they do that anyway?

i think they do this as a matter of course, but i also think that some are suggesting that some performance enhancing drugs are "below the radar" so to speak I:E not traceable.

the story of which im referring too is the Americans suggesting that a Chinese swimmer may have cheated by use of drugs.

There was even rumoured talk of "gene" treatments.

Admin1,

is it possible to make just an Olympic thread as i feel this topic is worth broader discussion? i noticed i had to specifically nominate a given sport, in this case swimming, when i feel this issue concerns all Olympic sport.

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I was watching the final and the way that the young Chinese swimmer just swam away like that was amazing, but you do wonder if she was on something. If she was, she probably doesn't even know it, like a lot of the East Germans at the time.

I know she has passed the drug test, but as vik has already said, she swam faster than Ryan Lochte in the final 50m of her race. That does not add up.

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Completely agree with OP. To suggest cheating and tainting someone’s gold medal moment is an absolute disgrace. All medallists are tested… nothing needs to be said. She is clean!
Maybe a punishment of bringing the sport into disrepute or something would be fitting?

Vik,

China have an awful lot of people to choose from these days,perhaps its just the law of averages?

still seems odd to me that whenever America or any Western country do well, its put down to sheer superiority, but whenever any one else does well we have to question why this should be.

it is odd isnt it?

It is true however that athletes are years ahead in terms of masking doping.

The doping boards keep hold of blood samples for close to 8 years in the hope that their screening advancements in that time may show up different results in the blood tests.