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Night Olympic Team
Fighting to Keep Drugs Out of the Game
Author: Caroline Hatton
Narrator: Barbara McCulloh
Unabridged: 1 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 02/14/2014
Synopsis
A team of scientists works to expose athletes who use banned drugs to win Olympic medals. Here is the true, inside story of the UCLA Olympic Laboratory - the drug-detection team that tests athletes for banned performance-enhancing drugs. The scientists worked long nights 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.