Aussies in Olympic drug test blitz

AUSTRALIA threw down the gauntlet to Olympic drug cheats today, with a tough new regime.

The new measures mean a doper will have to beat not one but every test developed during the next eight years.
Every Australian athlete selected for the Beijing Olympics will be drug-tested at least once before they leave for the Games in August.
In a joint program announced yesterday by the Australian Olympic Committee and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority up to 1000 athletes will be drug-tested.
The AOC expects to take about 480 athletes to China when team selection is finalised in July.
Blood and urine samples will also be stored for eight years as a further deterrent to drug cheats.
"This will be a major deterrent," AOC president John Coates said.
"Knowing ASADA can go back and test for performance-enhancing drugs eight years later will make anyone thinking of cheating nervous."
The International Olympi Committee has also ordered a a record 4500 drug tests to be carried out before and during competition in Beijng.