Steroid testing has become commonplace in sports, but here's a novel idea for a way to determine whether an athlete is using steroids besides getting a urine sample: Make him take a polygraph.Each competitor in the British Natural Bodybuilding Championships in Edinburgh has taken a lie detector test.The winners of the contest will still have to take conventional drug tests and there will also be random sampling.
Organisers and competitors said the lie detector tests proved that the issue of drug abuse and cheating was being taken seriously.
I find it hard to believe that lie detectors are going to catch any cheaters that conventional drug tests wouldn't have caught, but this approach is worth keeping an eye on. Maybe a polygraph will get one of the bodybuilders to break down and confess, the way it got Jerry to confess to watching Melrose Place.
Hat tip: Fark.




