Many feared that gene doping is already here. According to this article it isn’t here quite yet and when it does arrive they should be able to detect it:
It is feared athletes could use the technique to gain advantages such as greater endurance or bigger muscles.
They would be able to create a gene mutation through a single injection, without leaving substance traces, unlike the misuse of drugs such as anabolic steroids.
By the time that gene doping is there we hope and believe that we will have a method to detect it
Arne Ljungqvist, IOCBut gene doping could damage their future health.
Professor Ljungqvist, chairman of the IOC’s medical commission, said it was impossible to establish if cheats had already used the method, but insisted it would be possible.
He added: “We are a little ahead of those who may be tempted to use that method for the purpose of doping.
