http://www.metafilter.com/tags/drug_test Posts tagged with 'drug_test' at MetaFilter. Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:19:35 -0800 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:19:35 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/77378/Who%2Dknew%2Dthat%2Dchess%2Dhas%2Ddrug%2Dtesting <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,595819,00.html">The Great Chess Doping Scandal</a> <em>Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk refused to submit a urine sample for a drug test at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden and is now considered guilty of doping. The world of chess is outraged that he could face a two-year ban... [He] has been a grandmaster for the past 20 years and is currently ranked third in the world.</em> <em>The only reason there are doping tests in chess in the first place is that the World Chess Federation (FIDE) has been trying, since the late 1990s, to make chess an Olympic discipline. And anyone wishing to be part of the Olympics must submit to the rules of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).</em> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.77378 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:19:35 -0800 chess doping drug_test caddis