UGent professor to monitor doping at Winter Olympics

Van Eenoo was also involved in doping monitoring during previous Olympics in Athens, London and Turin. He now has the role of quality supervisor of the Olympic laboratory. For just over two weeks, the lab will analyse about 2,000 urine and 600 blood samples from athletes. Because fewer samples are checked during the Winter Olympics than at the summer games, and because the lab at Moscow is much bigger than the one in London, there are fewer foreign experts invited than usual. Only seven laboratories worldwide are sending a specialist.

The International Olympic Committee meanwhile announced its support for the project of PhD student Nathalie Rosier of the Free University of Brussels (VUB), called “A cross-cultural study into the junior-senior transition of Olympic athletes”. Since 2006, the committee has been supporting young researchers who examine the social and cultural influence of the Olympics.