Doping control analysis at the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games

• Published in: Drug testing and analysis 2017-11, Vol.9 (11-12), p.1658-1672
• Main Authors: Pereira, Henrique Marcelo Gualberto, Sardela, Vinicius Figueiredo, Padilha, Monica Costa, Mirotti, Luciana, Casilli, Alessandro, Oliveira, Fabio Azamor, Albuquerque Cavalcanti, Gustavo, Rodrigues, Lucas Martins Lisandro, Araujo, Amanda Lessa Dutra, Levy, Rachel Santos, Teixeira, Pedro Antonio Castelo, Oliveira, Felipe Alves Gomes, Duarte, Ana Carolina Giordani, Carneiro, Ana Carolina Dudenhoeffer, Evaristo, Joseph Albert Medeiros, Santos, Gustavo Ramalho Cardoso, Costa, Giovanni Carlo Verissimo, Lima Castro, Fernando, Nogueira, Fabio Cesar Sousa, Scalco, Fernanda Bertão, Pizzatti, Luciana, Aquino Neto, Francisco Radler
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: anti‐doping; athlete biological passport; Brazil; Doping in Sports; Drug testing; Humans; Laboratories; Mass Spectrometry; Olympic and Paralympic Games; Olympic games; Paralympic Games; South America; Substance Abuse Detection - methods; WADA‐accredited laboratory
• ISSN: 1942-7603; 1942-7611
• DOI: 10.1002/dta.2329

This paper summarises the results obtained from the doping control analyses performed during the Summer XXXI Olympic Games (August 3–21, 2016) and the XV Paralympic Games (September 7–18, 2016). The analyses of all doping control samples were performed at the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCD), a World Anti‐Doping Agency (WADA)‐accredited laboratory located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A new facility at Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ) was built and fully operated by over 700 professionals, including Brazilian and international scientists, administrative staff, and volunteers. For the Olympic Games, 4913 samples were analysed. In 29 specimens, the presence of a prohibited substance was confirmed, resulting in adverse analytical findings (AAFs). For the Paralympic Games, 1687 samples were analysed, 12 of which were reported as AAFs. For both events, 82.8% of the samples were urine, and 17.2% were blood samples. In total, more than 31 000 analytical procedures were conducted. New WADA technical documents were fully implemented; consequently, state‐of‐the‐art analytical toxicology instrumentation and strategies were applied during the Games, including different types of mass spectrometry (MS) analysers, peptide, and protein detection strategies, endogenous steroid profile measurements, and blood analysis. This enormous investment yielded one of the largest Olympic legacies in Brazil and South America. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Preparation, logistics, and analyses performed in the Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2016, Rio de Janeiro.