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Drug Testing at the Summer Olympics

By selenized on Aug 13, 2008
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Since the Olympics started mandatory drug testing there has been a race between testing labs and those that dope. Each trying to stay one step ahead of the other in terms of detecting the new illicit compounds. This data set presents the fraction of drug tests that came back positive for an illicit substance from the Summer Olympics since 1972.

Source

Journal of Mass Spectrometry 2008, 43, 839-853

Summary

Time Series Data

Range 1972 to 2004
(32 years)
Scale Yearly
Rows 9

Columns 3

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Year	Place	Fraction of tests with adverse findings (per thousand)

1984	Los Angeles	7.284768212
1988	Seoul	6.24609619
1992	Barcelona	2.672367718
1996	Atlanta	1.027221366
2000	Sydney	3.972553268
2004	Athens	7.860560492
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