Really. OK, not all of them. Forensic toxicologists can get around this using hair samples which will show doping up to 10 days earlier or carrying out tests well before competition. · Hide a fake bladder: Athletes at the Athens Olympics in 2004 were caught using a rubber bladder containing a clean sample hidden in their anus.

Available in white, black and latino skin shades to help fool watching officials. The athlete uses the fake when he is asked to produce a sample. What constitutes a full observation wasn’t really detailed. It even includes a small heater so the urine whizzes out at body temperature.

95. 37). · Don\’t tell the athletes: East German coaches operating during the 1980s would repackage anabolic steroids so their charges would not know what they were taking. There’s also the butt wedge, apparently a favorite of Eastern European athletes during the Athens Olympics in 2004.

Then there’s the whizzinator, a device strapped to your inner thigh that includes a fake piece of anatomy – sold in different skin tones – so it appears that the urine coming from it actually belongs to you. Table tennis, though, is another story. · Stop taking drugs a few days before the test: urine analysis can detect banned substances between two and five days after they were taken. Apparently, no Olympic sport has gone untouched by banned substances.

That’s probably one of the ones that we’ve all thought about and thought what a crazy world this is when we get to that point, Bowers says. Bowers says Olympic drug testers do a full observation of an athlete passing urine into a cup to assure something like a whizzinator isn’t in play. · Buy a bottle of synthetic urine: Quick Fix Pour & Go is available online for $29. Use a \”Whizzinator\”: a rubber penis connected to a pouch of clean urine which is incorporated with a specially adapted pair of underpants.

If an anti-doping agent is not watching it can be substituted for your own urine. On sale for $155 (£78. There’s no delicate way to describe how this works: Stick a bag of urine in your ass, run a tube from it between your legs and hope no one notices. Bowers says they’ve never nabbed a cheater in curling.

They got caught by the observation process. A fine tube runs between the legs and along the penis and the tube is squeezed to release the flow.