19. Behind the Scenes of Drug Testing

Nobody Asked Us with Des & Kara

Chris McClung

Running, Sports

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This is fun one. Recorded a few weeks ago, Des and Kara start with a mini-preview of the World Championships in Budapest, which is even more interesting now that we know the results. Then, they turn to an in-depth discussion of what it's like to be in the drug testing pool as an elite athlete.

From mixing it up on the ones and twos (and we aren't talking about turntables) to the nuts and bolts of the whereabouts filing system, you get all of the gory details, including their favorite war stories. Des and Kara are huge advocates of clean sport so they view this process as a necessary part of the job, and one that's manageable if you accept it.

This episode is dedicated to the show's sponsor @tcsglobal and to all of the doping control officers (DCOs) out there doing this not-so-glamorous work for clean sport. May you all get good samples and win the lottery some day.

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0:00.0	Hello listeners, welcome to another episode of Nobody Asked Us with Dez and Kara, presented
0:15.7	by TCS.
0:16.7	How's it going, Kara Goucher?
0:18.7	That's good.
0:19.7	How are you?
0:20.7	I'm doing well.
0:21.7	I got my radio voice going on today, so we've worked through early voice issues and we're
0:28.8	on a roll now.
0:29.8	You sound great now.
0:30.8	You sound white awake and red.
0:32.2	Yeah, sharp.
0:33.2	Really sharp.
0:34.2	We're giving away all the, like, behind the scenes of how we record these.
0:37.0	But if you haven't watched YouTube and picked up on the outfits, like, I don't know.
0:41.8	I don't know.
0:42.8	I just tell you.
0:43.8	Yeah.
0:44.8	Shocker.
0:45.8	We record two at once, people.
0:46.8	That's what we do because we're busy women.
0:49.3	That's right.
0:50.3	And that kind of sets things up because we're a little bit ahead of the game, but when this
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