The 40^th Manfred Donike workshop on doping analysis

Abstract

The 40 th Manfred Donike workshop on doping analysis It was planned to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Cologne Workshop on Doping Analysis (from 1996 onwards referred to as the Manfred Donike Workshop), the conference that has been annually hosted in Cologne, Germany, since 1983, in-person in March 2022. Unfortunately, identical to 2021, 1 the developments concerning the COVID-19 crisis generated a situation incompatible with the planned event. Instead, the second time in a row, the Manfred Donike Workshop was conducted as a virtual conference, realized with an overwhelming online attendance of 400 international representatives of World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-accredited laboratories plus invited guests, and fantastic presentations and contributions of outstanding breadth and quality. The collection of articles compiled in this special issue of Drug Testing & Analysis reflects a selection of core topics of 2021/2022, including the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, the XVI Paralympic Games, the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, and 2022 Winter Paralympics, issues and solutions, future aspects, and new test methods as well as data on most diverse aspects of sports drug testing, which were thematized at the 2022 conference.Central topics of the 2022 conference can be largely subsumed under analytical aspects concerning steroidal substances and erythropoiesis-stimulating agents as well as blood transfusions, as well as investigations into the detection, characterization, and synthesis of metabolic products of drugs, including, for example, myostatin

Annual banned‐substance review 16th edition—Analytical approaches in human sports drug testing 2022/2023

“…More than 50% of the study participants declared the use of dietary supplements, 9,10 and data suggest that such dietary supplement use is, to some extent, also a gateway to the use of prohibited performance enhancing substances. 11,12 Besides, the issue of contaminated and adulterated dietary supplements resulting in AAFs during doping controls still exists, both in manufactured and compounded products, 13,14 which substantially increases the risk of AAFs and ADRVs as well as health issues as recently outlined by Pascali et al 15 and Tran et al 16 Advancing test methods for doping controls is vital for modern sports drug testing programs, 17 as demonstrated by attributable effects and impact 18 as well as their implementation into routine application at major sporting events. 19,20 Research aiming at facilitating such advances are commonly aligned with the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA's) Prohibited List 21 and its 11 classes of banned substances (S0-S9 plus P1) and three categories of prohibited methods (M1-M3) (Table 1).…”

“…Advancing test methods for doping controls is vital for modern sports drug testing programs, 17 as demonstrated by attributable effects and impact 18 as well as their implementation into routine application at major sporting events 19,20 . Research aiming at facilitating such advances are commonly aligned with the World Anti‐Doping Agency's (WADA's) Prohibited List 21 and its 11 classes of banned substances (S0–S9 plus P1) and three categories of prohibited methods (M1–M3) (Table 1).…”