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Speakers:
Prof Chris Cooper, Head of Research: Sports and Exercise Science, Essex University
Prof Steve Harridge, Professor of Human & Applied Physiology, King’s College London
Prof John Brewer, Director of Sport at the University of Bedfordshire and board member, UK Anti-Doping
Prof Andy Miah, Director of the Creative Futures Research Centre, University of the West of Scotland
The Olympics and performance-enhancing drugs seem inseparable. We regularly find and punish drug cheats, yet some athletes persist in using banned substances and science is locked in an arms race with the next generation of performance-enhancing methods.
Four experts came to the SMC to discuss which scientific techniques might give the testers the edge, whether gene doping might be the next big thing and what would sport look like if all restrictions were lifted.