the archivist wrote:He appears to be a 16:00 5k road warrior. If this guy has access to these kinds of drugs what hope do we have to stop doping?
Got news for you. Many of these drugs are not new (been around for a few years and some for more than that). There's a whole black market (not a little hole in the wall but chemical supermarkets in China) and this seems to be the thing the authorities are most worried about (because they can't test for most of these).
I do some web development on the side when I'm not coaching, and one of my first clients was a business selling "Research Chemicals". Google that term in quotes in and you'll start to realize how big the problem is. At the time I was ignorant about what these things were being used for like many people here--I thought these were being sold to diet and fitness nuts, "hollywood types," and such. When I realized that these things were being used for athletic competitions (cheating) and they were all banned, I distanced myself from this business.
I'm picking my words carefully because I don't want to be responsible for making the so-called "new wave" doping problem worse. And I'm not talking about something that was done last month. We built this eCommerce website selling these things in 2009 (four years ago). And I'm not talking about 1-2 hot new chemicals. I'm talking about DOZENS that USADA is presently not able to stop.To mention a few that were sold on this site that are not exactly secret:
Albuterol (asthma med sometimes abused for performance)
clenbuterol (what Contador tested positive for)
IGF-1
There are dozens more, and, unfortunantly, while I wouldn't have the foggiest idea how to use these and how much to take, there seems to be no end to the message board "experts" that are using these or act like they know. And you can easily buy these things in almost any quantity from supply houses in China. You just need to know who the supply houses are (and the couple of suppliers that I do know about, I'm not going to tell you).
Nobody knows how many elite athletes in Olympic Sports are using these things to cheat (because WADA can't test for these and the athletes aren't exactly going to tell you), but abuse seems to be all over bodybuilding (who of cousrse turned the world on to steroids in the 1950's).