"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote in message
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Earlier today, our national media reported of an expected future, but
still
rather imminent, huge doping scandal in particularly US and UK
athletics,
because new methods of testing have shown clear presence of a brand
new
designer drug called something like THC or THK in numerous blood
and/or urin
samples taken from especially US athletes during the last Athletics
World
Championships earlier this year. But the only individual who has been
named
so far, is a very famous UK sprinter, but I do not remember his name
just
now. Some say here that this might ultimately disqualify all US
athletes
from participating in the Olympic Summer Games in Athens, Greece, next
year.
This is of course the "worst case scenario", and could very likely
happen to
some UK athletes, too, obviously.

At least one of the players in the current World Series are scheduled to
testify before some sort of Senate committee about these. They talked
about it a little bit last night. There were something on the order of
20 players in the 4 major US professional sports set to testify. They
mentioned some from Baseball and Football but I don't know who.

What's odd is that there have been cases of new drugs, like LSD, that
weren't illegal when they first appeared because they had never been
considered.

Will the Olympic Committee have to make new rules for these drugs and
*make* them illegal or are they already illegal under some sort of
blanket rule?

pigo