Can Biological "Passports" Root Out Doping in Sports?

Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 19:14 in Psychology & Sociology

Cycling, a sport that rivals or surpasses baseball in credibility issues when it comes to performance-enhancing drugs, is taking a new scientific tack in a bid to polish its tarnished image. The sport's international governing body, the International Cycling Union (UCI), has been murmuring to the press that doping charges are forthcoming--and soon--courtesy of a newly instituted anti-doping measure known as the biological passport. [More]

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