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A few days before the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, WDR research has revealed serious doubts about a credible anti-doping campaign in the Olympics' host country. In the ARD Sports Show (ARD, today, February 2, 2014, 18:00) and the WDR broadcast \"Sport Inside\" (WDR evening, February 3, 2014, 22:55), WDR reporters cover encounters of a Russian scientist with previously unknown doping agents. The internationally renowned staff of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow offered to sell undercover reporters the Full Size MGF; this is being investigated for its biochemical effects in a research facility under contract to the government. The compound is twice as strong as conventional MGF, and cannot be detected by drug laboratories, said the scientists of the drug.

At a doping research centre at the German Sport University in Cologne in Germany, Professor Mario Thevis tests urine samples from the world's top athletes. \"Reading that, it was very worrying that athletes, in spite of all these facts, are open to the misuse of these drugs,\" Prof Thevis said. While he believes we can't eliminate doping, he says it's imperative to make it as complicated as possible to misuse drugs, and protect those honest athletes from their cheating counterparts.

[Mario Thevis], who developed the new test, said it is \"absurd\" that WADA ignored the chance to use it in Beijing in August. \"The behaviour of WADA's representatives is absurd,\" said Thevis in yesterday's edition of German magazine Stern. Thevis has been helped by American Don Catlin, a member of WADA's committee for science and medicine, who insists WADA bosses are not taking them seriously enough.

A few grains of household soap powder can destroy the banned drug EPO in an athlete's urine sample, wrecking a test that cost $2 million to develop, said Mario Thevis, an anti-doping researcher in Cologne, Germany.

\"Never seen anything like it,\" Max Cobb, the chief executive of U.S. Biathlon, said in a telephone interview. \"It's definitely shocking and disturbing for me personally because I think it's probably not the only pharmaceutical being used to enhance performance.\" \"That's a group of doctors and scientists as well,\" Mr. [David Howman, WADA] said. \"And they then make the determination of whether to accept the recommendation or change it and then report to the WADA executive committee, which makes the final decision so that it is transmitted by the 30th of September. We have to do that to give people three months' notice of any changes before it comes into being on the 1st of January.\" \"I don't have a lot of sympathy for people using it who didn't check the list,\" Mr. Cobb said. \"As far as I'm concerned, they had found a way to use a performance-enhancing drug that was not being tested for, and that's a moral line I wouldn't cross. If you are going to go that route, you better damn well be sure you read the memo.\"

\"Never seen anything like it,\" Max Cobb, the chief executive of U.S. Biathlon, said in a telephone interview. \"It's definitely shocking and disturbing for me personally because I think it's probably not the only pharmaceutical being used to enhance performance.\" \"That's a group of doctors and scientists as well,\" Mr. [David Howman, WADA] said. \"And they then make the determination of whether to accept the recommendation or change it and then report to the WADA executive committee, which makes the final decision so that it is transmitted by the 30th of September. We have to do that to give people three months notice of any changes before it comes into being on the first of January.\" \"I don't have a lot of sympathy for people using it who didn't check the list,\" Mr. Cobb said. \"As far as I'm concerned, they had found a way to use a performance-enhancing drug that was not being tested for, and that's a moral line I wouldn't cross. If you are going to go that route, you better damn well be sure you read the memo.\"