European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Olymp is stopping the use of banned substances by Raf casert associated press he More drugs in sports change the More the Bailie Lor Prince Alexandra de erode remains the same. At the Seoul olympics he head of the International olympic committee s medical commission laces a Well worn Challenge that still eludes in answer How id keep up with athletes who use increasingly sophisticated hard to detect drugs to cheat their Way to the top. The Challenge said de erode. Shows the need Lor a joint International Effort to ban drugs from sports. Since de erode look the Job 21 years ago. The use of banned substances has olten staved one step ahead of detection. Our Long Oad is not yet at an  he said in an interview Al his Brussels Belgium Home. Tomorrow there will be another drug problem More complicated end probably involving some genetic manipulation he said now the Ioc plans to Battle medical Progress with improved organization. Meeting on the eve of the Seoul games it Hopes to approve uniform drug procedures and sanctions Lor All olympic sports Al both the games and other events. A textbook Case he said was Spain s Pedro Delgado Winner of the 1988 tour a France who used a drug masking agent that is banned by the Ioc but not the International cycling federation whose rules apply to the race the discrepancy in sanctions is an old controversy. Ii Ollen discredits sports in general and leaves Many athletes feeling discriminated. Two types of sanctions or the same Type of offence is unacceptable says de erode. Together with Enesco and individual sports federations the Ioc Atso Hopes to enlist governments in the fight against drugs in sports. A conference about this is due to take place in Moscow in november. Thai will be a first important step said de erode. Than we will be Able to unify the taws of the governments and the rules of the International federations the Ioc and so on in Seoul the Ioc also plans to Issue rules designed to curb trafficking in banned substances by athletes. Earlier this year. Soviet Speed skating Star Nicolas Gul Jajev was caught with 800 anabolic steroid pills. And Eric Coppin the belgian Power lifting world Champion carried 28,000 such pills in his suitcase when he tried to enter Norway. These instances fuelled suspicions hat doping is much More prevalent than Ioc lasting indicates. We must have regulations such As those used by governments against trafficking which penalize offenders whatever the excuse said de erode. Athletes often say they do not know the products they Are carrying. It is hoped the  rules will be in Force Whan the olympics open sept. 17. Sanctions will be very drastic de erode said. But with Competition and training getting More intense the temptation for athletes to overstep their natural limits through drugs increases he said. Also the drugs themselves remain templing As Many can elude detection. Human growth hormones used by doctors to treat do artist. First appeared in sports several years ago. Same athletes believe they can boost their output but specialists doubt this. A do not know if they have any effect on performance. Some years ago growth hormones were actually used More than now he said. Genetically engineered drugs which could dramatically enhance output without showing up in lasts Are still All in the future but Are already a major Challenge he said. A drug busting breakthrough was made at the pc american games in Indianapolis fast year when organizers were Able to test for Proben Icid a drug masking agent. At Seoul olympic athletes will Tor the first time to screened Lor Proben Icid which is on the Ioc s list c banned drugs it gained notoriety last month when it was Lound i Delgado s urine As he led in the Overall standings of. Tour de France. But As the International cycling federation Al the time unlike the Ioc did not yet ban pro Benicta the spaniard was not penalized and went on to win cycling s most grueling event. He tried to cheat and by Luck got away with it de erode. De erode admits doctors Are Olhan the real Vil in cases of drug abuse. Athletes themselves Are Oft ignorant of the dangers of the drugs they take. Some doctors have forgotten their hippocratic c their Basic ethics when they treat top alleles he  Ioc began testing for banned drugs at the 1 olympics in Mexico. In Moscow in 1980, not one competitor was car using banned drugs something that raised a Lew eyebrows of sport insiders. Al the 1984 lob Angela games a dozen athletes were caught. In the Ioc jargon they tested  the Ioc conducts some 37,000 drugs tests Anni. Of these some 2 percent lest positive Al Houg de erode acknowledges a figure of up to 10 Perci would be More realistic. He says urine tests Are tar from perfect and Hope blood tests will soon be introduced. These Coupler with urine tests will give cheaters a lot less leeway the distance Between us and the people work it against us is strongly reduced he said Komorny however some new drug might be  drug testing process drug tests will be done according to the rules of me Ioc medical commission and administered by the Seoul olympic organizing committee health sen ices department. Only alleles in exhibition sports will not be tested. A testing official will follow each athlete from the Competition site in a nearby testing site. A urine specimen will be gathered irom each athlete in a toilet area in the presence of an official. Athletes Are allowed to drink  in the waiting room before providing a Sample to avoid tampering or  of samples athletes select the containers into which thay will void. They then Divide the Sample into two other containers they have also selected Seal and Label them and deliver them to a collection area All in the presence of an official. One Container is submitted Tor analysis the other is stored in Case a discrepancy arises with the testing. Samples Are delivered to a nearby Laboratory for analysis within 24 hours of co Section analysis is done by a machine called a Gas chromatography mass spectrometry go Mil. Smalt amounts of each Sample Are measured into four test tubes. Each portion undergoes a specific chemical workup to be pure enough to inject into the gems. The gems produces a specific graph from calculations and tabulations of molecular fragments from each Sample. Thai graph can then be compared with graph readouts of known substances. A test is positive if a predetermined amount of a banned substance is found. The amount varies. With different substances. Masking drugs use of All Sutsut Snoj and procedure to distort teat result Are banned 1 1 we probe Neel pro Bencid is used in a vol the treatment of gonorrhoea Lor Block excretion o penicillin triv tax from the kidneys. Some to t it athletes believe in May similarly a Block excretion of steroids from the kidneys resulting in a negative urine drug test other procedure these include . In which a Catheter is used to take urine irom one person and insert it into another person. Tests May Smi be positive Sinca the body is always producing new urine that will mix with the Catheter urine. Also diuretics Are used to dilute urine and thus reduce the concentration of drugs. But it a Sample is Loo dilute another must be provided. Paga 14 the stars and stripes wednes