In all WC under AIDA the winners are tested and some random athletes, not many. These tests follow as far as I know IOC rules. They cost about 500 US (probably more). They do not detect EPO. EPO test would cost nearly 10 times as much I guess.
To keep doping out of freediving we would have to be able to test athletes year around. There are doping that enhances training and is gone at competitions.
Taking a certain drug to get more out of your training might also feel like "not cheating so much" - at the end of the day its your body (without doping in it) that does the record at competition (one could argue with oneself).
Its easy to suspect doping when athletes perform in a way thats unexplicable. No matter how I would train there are certain results I would never attain - I believe. But the explanation does not have to be doping, it could be genes or training/preparation/diet I have never heard of.
Sebastian
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