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When you sit down to watch the Olympics, you expect that you’re seeing the world’s best athletes competing on a level playing field.
The organization that runs the Olympics prides itself on that promise, and it presents the Games as being tougher on dopers than any other sporting competition. It claims to have the most rigorous drug testing.