The Night Olympic Team: Fighting to Keep Drugs Out of the Games

by Caroline Hatton

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The true, inside story of the UCLA Olympic Laboratory - the drug-detection team that tests athletes for banned performance-enhancing drugs. The team worked long nights for two weeks to detect a new, never-before-tested performance-enhancing drug called NESP (novel erythropoietic stimulating protein) during the 19th Winter Olympics (2002) in Salt Lake City, Utah. The group's work exposed three NESP users among the winning cross-country skiers. The drug users were stripped of their medals, which were then given to the rightful winners.
  • ISBN13 9781590785669
  • Publish Date 15 May 2008
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 30 January 2013
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Boyds Mills Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 56
  • Language English