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The following are public statements made within the past two years by Dr. Don Catlin or other key people at Anti-Doping Research, Inc.<\/p>\n
Dr. Don Catlin on \u201cAll Things Considered,\u201d National Public Radio, July 10, 2008<\/b><\/p>\n
On catching cheaters at the Olympics:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cThe Olympics and the power and the money behind it is just too big\u2026 When you\u2019re up against a problem of this nature and magnitude, those amounts of money (the budgets for WADA and USADA) just can\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Don Catlin in Associated Press article, \u201cBigger, Stronger, Faster?\u201d June 20, 2008<\/b><\/p>\n
On doping in thoroughbred racing:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just exactly like human doping. There\u2019s a lot of horses on them (steroids) and they win and they take them\u2026 They\u2019ve been on them for 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Don Catlin in Associated Press story,<\/b>
\n\u201cBaseball\u2019s Drug Problem: No Short-term Solutions,\u201d December 17, 2007<\/b><\/p>\n
On the ongoing race to keep up with athletes using performance-enhancing drugs:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s say we get that (hGH) contained tomorrow. The next day, there\u2019s going to be another one (drug).\u201d<\/p>\n
On the need to keep up with unethical competitors:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cYou just don\u2019t hear about the newest things out there because users aren\u2019t going to tell us, and why should they?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Don Catlin in Analytical Chemistry, August 1, 2007<\/b><\/p>\n
On the need for a urine test for human growth hormone use:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the Olympics are going on, we will do blood. During the Olympics, everything is focused on a 2-week period, and all kinds of support and facilities are available so we can do blood. But it\u2019s very difficult to do blood day in and day out.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the rigors of drug testing in sport: <\/i> <\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we call a positive case, we have to be exactly on target. We have to have a mass spectrum and retention time. We have to have controls and a lot of details to make sure we can prove our case. We prepare documentation packages that are up to 50-100 pages long, showing what we did and how we did it. There\u2019s a lot of work to prove a positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the hope of getting athletes to prove themselves clean upfront:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cYou want to sit in front of your TV, watch a marathon, and be confident that everyone\u2019s clean. You can\u2019t do that today. I\u2019m wondering if there\u2019s a way to induce a shift so that athletes take charge and clean it up themselves. Many athletes are clean, but they can\u2019t prove it. The whole point of this (new) system is trying to support the athletes who do compete clean and never will cheat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Don Catlin in Analytical Chemistry, June 1, 2007<\/b><\/p>\n
On his team\u2019s development of a test for synthetic testosterone, which many believed to be unachievable:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cA group of us was sitting around\u2026 batting around some ideas. We started saying, \u2018Gee whiz, maybe it\u2019s got a different carbon isotope ratio.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a hard sell. It\u2019s really hard to describe to sports funders what you\u2019re trying to do\u2026
\nThey have no idea what you\u2019re doing. It was \u2018Who are you, and how credible are you? You want a $300,000 instrument?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
On the need to be flexible in developing drug tests, such as the one he and his team developed for the designer steroid, THG:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cThere really was no choice (with THG). In this business, if you find something like THG, then it\u2019s out there.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his goal to develop a volunteer testing program for athletes:<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cWe will follow biomarkers much as a doctor would follow a patient by measuring their blood pressure. Some of these biomarkers would be related to doping.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind of industry is it where you train hard and finally excel to get to the Olympic level, but somebody says, \u2018Oh, you must have cheated. How else could you get here?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Don Catlin and ADR on issues in doping\u2026 The following are public statements made within the past two years by Dr. Don Catlin or other key people at Anti-Doping Research, Inc. Dr. Don Catlin on \u201cAll Things Considered,\u201d National Public Radio, July 10, 2008 On catching cheaters at the Olympics: \u201cThe Olympics and the … Continue reading Recent Statements<\/span>