Sport: Chasing The Truth
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James Coleman, a Duke law professor who has both prosecuted and defended track-and-field athletes in steroid cases, suggests that labs save all urine samples to prevent athletes from staying one step ahead of the authorities by using ever newer steroids and masking agents. "They could preserve the sample," he says. "Take a sample after every athlete wins a major race or sets a world record. And as you develop new tests, test a portion. If the athlete cheated, you can always take back the record. You can always take back the victory." But that solution overlooks one important thing: you can't take back the time sports fans may have spent watching steroid-tainted athletes.
--Reported by Laura A. Locke/San Francisco and Deirdre van Dyk/New York
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