In reveiwing a lot of the recent literature on the use of banned and sometimes even illegal drugs to enhance performance here are a few thoughts for your conisderation/commentary.
- The motive for developing sophisticated drug therapies to enhance performance is significantly greater than the motive to detect them. Example: Successful evasion of drug testing will result in better performance/greater winnings. Successful detection of PED use will result in scandal, dissention and discredit to the attendant sport.
This is the primary discrepency in this system. There are significant incentives for NOT testing positive. There are no incentives for testing positive.
-Therefore: Substantial efforts devoted to the development counter-detection methodology/techniques and attendant therapies that evade detection would be substantially rewarding. While no empiracle data suggest these operations are on-going, it is reasonable to surmise the motive exists, as well as the technology.
Since the nature of these operations is inherently covert, and the very nature of their motive is objectionable to the general public at large, it is highly unlikely that (if such operations were on-going), that they could be definatively detected/revealed.