New doping test can reveal more cheating female athletes
Roughly three times as many male athletes are banned for doping as female. A new doctoral thesis from Karolinska Institutet shows that one possible reason for this is that the doping tests in use fail to take account of women’s varying hormone profile. Instead, an alternative is proposed that includes a blood test and a limit value that allows doping tests for both elite athletes and casual sportspersons.Despite the debate of recent years on testosterone levels in elite female athletes, there are only a handful of scientific studies on the topic. However, Jona Elings Knutsson’s doctoral
