Male player’s urine test shows pregnancy. Are athletes’ urine tests too lax?

The athlete’s urine test showed pregnancy, indicating that there was indeed a problem with the urine test process.

The person involved in the incident is American D.J Cooper. Cooper is a basketball player who was undrafted in the NBA draft and later played for teams in various countries. In order to be naturalized into the Bosnian national team, Cooper needed to undergo a routine urine test, but the urine test showed that she was pregnant.

Of course Cooper cannot be pregnant. The problem is that the urine he used for the urine test was replaced by his girlfriend's urine. It is estimated that he and his girlfriend did not know that she was pregnant. In response, the International Blue Federation gave him a two-year ban.

Athletes’ urine testing is generally divided into three steps: identifying the athlete to be tested, urine sampling, and sample testing. Cooper used his girlfriend's urine instead of testing, and it can be seen that the problem lies in the second link.

In large-scale events such as the Olympic Games, athletes must take urine samples in front of staff, and no other people are allowed to be present during the sampling process. The urine is divided into bottles A and B. Bottle A is used for testing. If bottle A tests positive, bottle B is used for re-testing. Packaging boxes containing urine should have a tamper-evident seal inserted. The packaging boxes are delivered by a dedicated person and the relevant responsible official must sign. After arriving at the laboratory, a dedicated person must check whether the samples are damaged, unpack and replace them, etc. It is said that the entire process can be subdivided into more than 30 links, so you can imagine how rigorous the process is.

However, such strict procedures have led to pregnancy test incidents, which shows that no matter how strict the regulations are, it is in vain if they are not implemented well. The frequency of doping in track and field events and swimming events is relatively high. Doping incidents are rare in ball sports such as basketball and football. Because these sports competitions take a long time and consume a lot of physical strength, the role of doping is not that important. . This Cooper avoided the urine test for some unknown reason, and who knew that his girlfriend was pregnant.