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Doping tests for athletes evolve but gaps remain

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Tests to detect performance-enhancing drugs in athletes are improving, but even the newest have limitations, testing experts say, following recent reports of widespread doping in athletics.

Most doping tests are designed to identify known substances. But athletes are constantly on the lookout for chemicals that are not on testers' radars.

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