Are doping tests in sports trustworthy?: Athletes suffer from insufficiently defined criteria for doping tests: Athletes suffer from insufficiently defined criteria for doping tests

Jon Nissen-Meyer; Tore Skotland; Erik Boye

doi:10.15252/embr.202154431

Are doping tests in sports trustworthy?: Athletes suffer from insufficiently defined criteria for doping tests: Athletes suffer from insufficiently defined criteria for doping tests

EMBO Rep. 2022 Feb 3;23(3):e54431. doi: 10.15252/embr.202154431. Epub 2022 Feb 14.

Authors

Jon Nissen-Meyer¹, Tore Skotland², Erik Boye^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
² Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
³ Department of Radiation Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.

Abstract

The lack of clearly defined criteria for doping tests carries a great risk of punishing innocent athletes and undermines the fight against doping in international sports.

MeSH terms

Athletes
Doping in Sports*
Humans
Sports*