Doping Police Try Out "Biological Passports" for Athletes

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By Eliza Strickland
Mar 12, 2009 11:50 PMNov 5, 2019 5:27 AM
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Unscrupulous athletes may soon find it much harder to get away with juicing. Anti-doping agencies are trying out "biological passports," electronic records for individual athletes which provide baseline measurements of substances in their blood and urine. The record is built up over time through repeated sampling, and later tests can look for suspicious changes that may indicate the use of performance enhancing substances.

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