At the Olympic Games, frequent drug testing is carried out and positive doping results are monitored, which often results in the loss of Olympic medals by athletes who are found to have violated anti-doping rules. As of 2020, the most common type of doping violation was the use of Turinabol, which was listed in ** positive doping cases. Turinabol is an oral anabolic steroid created to enhance performance of athletes. Meanwhile, there were ** biological passport abnormalities that resulted in a positive doping result.
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