It is in the documentary "Involuntarily doped" from German ARD that the groundbreaking tests are revealed.
The new tests showed that through a light touch of the skin, sufficient amounts of the banned substances could be transferred into the body and then detected in doping tests.
For Åke Andrén-Sandberg, it is not a strange move.
- That you can take medication through the skin is nothing new.
This is done on a large scale in modern healthcare in terms of painkillers.
In menopause, some women get their medicine estrogen in that way, he says and also points to previous examples in sports:
- In a doping context, we had a Norwegian skier (Therese Johaug) who says that she put on anabolic steroids on her lips, and two days later it was seen in the urine.
That has been accepted.
"Be positively critical of"
The subjects in the tests were affected on the arm, on the back of the hand and the palm as well as in the neck.
But it is not clear how large amounts of the banned substances were used, which the chairman of Anti-Doping Sweden, Åke Andrén-Sandberg, considers to be problematic.
- In the program, they have done a test that was obviously done to show something special.
You have to be positively critical of that, because we do not know what quantities were measured.
We have to wait for scientific reports before we can say what it will mean for the future.
How was your reaction to the research results, that you got those rashes after such a long time?
- If it is now the case that you can get it by smearing it on the lips or kissing, it is not unexpected.
But I would like to know what amounts were measured, and were any metabolites measured as well?
We measure not only the drug itself in the context of doping, but also how it is broken down in the body.
It says a bit about the way you have ingested it, what doses and what time, he says and continues:
- Interesting, but still too insufficient to draw conclusions from it.
The documentary "Involuntarily doped" is available on SVT Play.