TECHNOLOGY IN DRUG TESTING

Tests to detect illegal drugs are not an individual technology as much as a collection of technologies that has changed almost every sport in the world. Until 1999 , there were small-scale ,uncoordinated drug tests across individuals sports, but these were fairly easily bypassed. In many sports , drug  abuse to improve performance was endemic . Since then , the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has helped to push forward the use of drug -testing technologies to help fight the use of performance    enhancing drugs in sport. This has levelled the  playing field in many sports and helped to weed out some of the biggest drugs cheats in world sport,from Lance Armstrong to Dwayne Chambers. It has given faith in  performances back to the athletes too. Before , when an outstanding individual performance occurred ,many treated it with a degree of suspicion. Today , thanks to this technology , people many have doubts , but athletes can point to reliable drugs testing to show that it is a clean result.

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