The I.O.C. predicted that 30 to 40 athletes would test positive, after 26 tested positive in Athens in 2004. But so far, the tests have caught only three.
From July 27 to Aug. 13, the I.O.C. conducted 2,203 tests for doping — 1,720 urine tests and 483 blood tests. It will continue testing until Aug. 24, catching up with athletes after they return home, if necessary. By that time, the committee expects to have conducted 4,500 drug tests. There were 3,600 tests in Athens.
Michael Phelps has been extensively tested, each time with both blood and urine tests. He had a test Aug. 2, when the United States swim team was in Singapore. The team arrived at the Olympic Village in Beijing on Aug. 4, and Phelps was tested again.
“We had been here an hour in the village when they went here and got him,” said Dr. Scott A. Rodeo, a team physician for USA Swimming who is an orthopedist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. Since then, Phelps has been tested seven times, Rodeo said, including twice on Aug. 11.
Source cited: New York Times
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