'Doping at your doorstep: The next Olympic drug crisis could be coming through the mail"
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The next Olympic doping scandal could be delivered right to your doorstep.
A trove of so-called research chemicals known as peptides, many of them banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and some not approved for human use in the United States, are available with the simple click of a button through online retailers. One seller is Amazon. Another is Alibaba, a sponsor of the International Olympic Committee.
The easy availability of the drugs combined with their hard-to-detect nature is precisely the toxic combination doping regulators and Olympic officials are trying to avoid. With the Milan Cortina Games just two months away, they are hoping to break a string of scandals involving the Russians and Chinese that have disrupted the Games, both summer and winter, since 2014.
Though online pharmaceuticals and supplements have for years been portrayed as a risk by anti-doping authorities, the influx of certain hard-to-detect peptides — chains of protein-building amino acids marketed to help with anything from anti-aging to workout recovery to weight and memory loss — presents a more difficult challenge....
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https://apnews.com/article/doping-olympics-peptides-online-60dc626b6e9870292746e3c16ad5df4cSee:
https://www.bscg.org/blogs/single/worlds-largest-retailers-selling-unapproved-peptides-and-performance-enhancing-drugs
