In the last 25 years the challenges presented by performance enhancing drugs in sports and the inedequacy of the drug testing agencies to deal with it, has come to a point that even high ranked officials are venting their frustration.

"There's definitely a performance-enhancing effect if you use things that improve oxygen transport to the tissue," says Larry Bowers, an expert on athletic drug testing and senior managing director of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. He says anonymous surveys of athletes indicate that only a tenth of them use performance-enhancing drugs. But he acknowledges that doped Athletes may win most of the time." 

"Charles Yesalis, an epidemiology professor at Pennsylvania State University who has written extensively on the use of  performance-enhancing drugs in sport over the past 23 years, believes a "large percentage" of record-holders probably doped their way to the finish line. "A lot of experts, at least in private, feel that way," he says."
"Yesalis maintains that drug testing, as practiced at past games, has been a "farce." "Just because of my own value system, I  have never seriously entertained legalizing drugs," says Yesalis. "But the stench of the hypocrisy is starting to outweigh my hesitation to just throw up my hands and say, 'Let everybody do whatever they want.'"   Performance Drugs Outrun The Olympics - Matthew Herper, 02.15.02, 12:00 PM ET  Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/2002/02/15/0215ped.html

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