Anti Doping Controls at the Euro 2008

The second biggest football event commonly knownimplemented due to the several doping scandals
as the UEFA European Football Championship; whichwhich have shadowed the world of sports in general.
this year will be hosted by the countries ofThe testing UEFA is suggesting will enable to detect
Switzerland and Austria will add a new specialany type of banned substances such as:
measurement. All 16 different football associations willblood-boosting drug EPO, growth hormone or even
allow for their players to take blood and urine tests inany kind of unusual blood transfusion. The samples of
order to support the anti-doping controls which arethese tests will be taken to the UEFA’s
currently conducted in most sports.laboratories in Lausanne and the results will be ready
The idea was taken into consideration and finallywithin 48 hours.