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Munich (dpa) - According to two experts and anti-doping experts, the doping proceedings against the German doctor Mark S. uncovered large deficits in the search for fraudsters in sport.
For Detlef Thieme, the head of the doping control laboratory in Kreischa, it was “extremely strange” how gaps in the doping search system “could be professionally and mercilessly exploited”.
In an interview with the German Press Agency, Thieme mentioned, for example, Mark S.'s pattern of giving blood to athletes shortly before the competition if they could be certain that they would not be tested.
"Here a deficit came to light that I could not imagine."
Thieme was appointed as an expert in the process at the Munich Regional Court in addition to the former Lübeck university professor Wolfgang Jelkmann and had followed the entire taking of evidence.
As a lesson from the procedure, the experts demand a significant improvement in the test strategies.
"In order to increase the effectiveness of the tests, the sampling must be more targeted," said Jelkmann of the dpa.
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He suggests focusing on relevant sports, relying more on training controls and - actually quite simply - regularly examining the crooks of the arm after vein punctures in the fight against blood doping.
In the trial, several athletes testified that this never happened.
Thieme was surprised at how detailed Mark S. and his athletes knew about their blood values and how quickly news from the anti-doping fight made the rounds in the fraud scene.
He therefore demands that, in addition to formal communication between the anti-doping units, there must also be a regular, quick and unbureaucratic exchange of information.
"When substances get on the prohibited lists, I have the feeling that all the masses have already been sung, then it's yesterday's news."
Institute for doping analysis and sports biochemistry in Kreischa