Less than 1% of college athletes are caught violating anti-doping rules

A few college sportspersons are caught using forbidden medications. Does it mean that they don’t take doping products? Less than 1% of college football players have been caught violating anti-doping rules. They have tested positive for anabolic steroids and/or other doping products. Such situation must convince anti-doping agencies that they win in the fight against doping. But certain suspicions arise. It is believed that many college football players apply steroids and/or other related medicines but they avoid detection successfully.
Why do such suspicions appear? Changes in physique of college football players cause controversial affirmations. Thus, changes in body mass of more than 61,000 college football players were lately analyzed by the Associated Press. Results showed that a lot of college football players enhanced their body mass in short period of time evidentially. More than 20 pounds were gained by over 4,500 college football players during a year. Moreover, near 100 individuals enhanced the body mass by over 80 pounds during a year. As you see, the gains were obvious.
Some experts assure that these aspects should not trouble anti-doping officials. They affirm that anti-doping agencies shouldn’t subject college football players to drug tests just because they have enhanced body weight obviously.
But other specialists have another point of view. Although they agree that it is impossible to affirm that certain football players have taken steroids and/or other related medications, basing only on changes in body mass, they note that the changes may be a factor which causes suspicions linked with intake of steroids. So, such persons that have enhanced body mass in short time should be subjected to steroid testing.
Some college football players that increased body mass significantly in short period of time were asked about their changes. The football players affirmed that they had never taken any prohibited products. They claimed that they reached such dramatic changes naturally. The college athletes noted that they had consumed much food for this purpose. So, they claimed that such significant results were achieved by them with the help of appropriate diets. According to them, it was not difficult to gain many pounds in short period of time.