.NOT SUCH A LONG TIME ago it seemed that the Olympics was gaining its battle with medicine cheats. Retests of samples from competitors at the Beijing and London games caused much more than one hundred champions being excluded for doping. This tally highlighted the incidence of drugtaking in Olympic sports, but also the effectiveness of anti-doping authorizations.
The creation of the World Anti-Doping Organization (WADA) in 1999 had revealed that the sporting activities world adored ending unfaithful. Top-level dopers, like Marion Jones, a United States athlete, were actually disciplined retroactively. In the meantime a new generation of sportsmens like Usain Screw and Michael Phelps broke records without the help of prohibited drugs.