Drug testers will alter how they test for the endurance drug EPO after a World Anti-Doping Agency review prompted by Australian Olympian Peter Bol’s case.
Bol was provisionally banned for seven months in 2023 after returning a positive, out-of-competition test for EPO. The ban was lifted when further analysis of his test results cleared the 800-metre runner.The WADA review was not of Bol’s case specifically but explored the broader method of testing for EPO, which world scientific experts still criticise as being “subjective, old-fashioned and unsophisticated”.
The spokesman said these changes were to strengthen how tests were processed and reported and to improve “harmonisation of laboratory-related anti-doping rules and activities”. Bol’s lawyers and scientists argued the athlete had large amounts of naturally occurring EPO and drug testers had misread this natural EPO as synthetic. Bol’s samples were reported to be a “borderline” positive.
The scientists argue better methods for testing for EPO – using mass spectrometers to analyse proteins – should be developed because the method the WADA review validated as effective was “old-fashioned and rather unsophisticated”.“Perhaps in theory, but in practice?”
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