This statistic was in an article I cited in another thread:
Worldwide in 2007, 174,483 drug screenings were given in Olympic-related sports, turning up 3,375 so-called “adverse” or questionable results (1.93 percent), Wadler said.
“The low number of violations puts into perspective that most athletes are drug-free,” Wadler said. “But you hear about the celebrated doping cases, and the notion becomes that this is a useless battle. Quite the opposite. I think this is all positive in doping reform.”
The article was about the Russian athletes who just got banned. If you haven't read it yet it's pretty interesting - it was a "sting" operation that caught them...
www.nytimes.com/.../01doping.html
This statistic was in an article I cited in another thread:
Worldwide in 2007, 174,483 drug screenings were given in Olympic-related sports, turning up 3,375 so-called “adverse” or questionable results (1.93 percent), Wadler said.
“The low number of violations puts into perspective that most athletes are drug-free,” Wadler said. “But you hear about the celebrated doping cases, and the notion becomes that this is a useless battle. Quite the opposite. I think this is all positive in doping reform.”
The article was about the Russian athletes who just got banned. If you haven't read it yet it's pretty interesting - it was a "sting" operation that caught them...
www.nytimes.com/.../01doping.html
