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When working for a large construction or demolition contractor I'm nearly always subjected to a few random drug tests. I'm being deadly serious when I say that they're notoriously easy to fool. We're nearly always warned about a random test about a week in advance and all you have to do to get around them is flush your body full of fresh orange juice or if you really want to nail it then take an entire tube of Boroca vitimin tablets.


I do however appreciate that an industry drug testing kit available on the commercial market would be easier to cheat than something used by the Olympic doping commision or the military.


Just thought you'd like to know.

Every World Championships, Olympics has a new state of the art finely tuned running track to aid new World Records..


What the Athletics authorities should also look at is a standard track through the ages as just because someone get's a new record (whatever distance) does not necessarily make them the better athlete than the previous record holder.

Even if matthew's theory is true, I don't see the problem. The athletes at a given meeting are still competing on even terms, and the prospect of breaking records and pushing the sport forward adds excitement. Do you think we'd have this much interest in Athletics right now if Bolt and Gay were running 9.8-9.9s?

It's a sad reflection on any sport when more merit appears to be gained from breaking records than the actual achievement of winning the Cup or a Gold medal. In a few years time when the record has been smashed a few more times what are people going to applaud from yesterday, an old record or an old gold medal?


If World Records didn't seem to be the be all and end all of anything less than 400m then improvement in running track would be no big deal - which is the reverse in Football as no one puts more glory on scoring a 40 yard free kick over actually winning a match.

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