Ninety per cent of the 11,000 athletes in attendance at the Games of the 29th Olympiad used dietary supplements of some kind, according to the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance (ESSNA). There was not a single supplement contamination case.
The extremely high level of scrutiny attached to the bodily inputs of athletes at such meets has on occasion revealed contaminated products that have resulted in athletes being sent home in shame and banned from their respective sports.
The fact its products can be widely used by athletes at an event like the Olympics where scrutiny is at its most intense, is testimony to an industry that has its house in order. The World Anti Doping Agency has a 4000-strong banned substances list and conducted about 5000 doping tests in Beijing.
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