Since organising dope testing for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Don Catlin has waged war against drugs in sport. His detection of the “designer” steroid THG in 2003 exposed a scandal that is still reverberating around the sporting world. With the Tour de France mired in doping chaos and baseball’s home-run king Barry Bonds under suspicion, Catlin tells Peter Aldhous about his plan to turn drug testing on its head.
When did you discover that rogue chemists were making drugs for athletes?
The episode that really taught me what was going on was a steroid called norbolethone. In 2002,…
