Earlier this year, it was definitively declared that before the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, there would be an effective HGH test in place to regulate illegal use of the hormone.  It has been so difficult to determine because of the levels of HGH that naturally occur in the body, unlike opiates, which do not naturally occur in the physiological form.  The regulating body (rather unfortunately named the World Anti-Doping Agency) has announced a test that can detect illicit use of HGH supplements up to eight years after the fact, which may have devastating effects for prior Olympians.  HGH first became a problem in 1989 for the Olympics, when it was discovered that one of the side effects of HGH was increased performance in sports.  This has been a test almost thirty years in the making, and an obviously correlated thirty year headache for Olympic governing bodies.  It would now be earth shattering to discover that some of the worlds most famous Olympians were taking performance enhancing drugs at the time of their win, but the real question is how could it possibly hold up?  Is it not feasible that in the eight years since their win they have undergone hormonal treatments and NOT participated in the Olympics? 

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