By John Considine
The Irish Sports Council (ISC) annual report provides a range of details on the Anti-Doping tests they conduct. This post examines the National Programme Testing Statistics for 2012. The table opposite lists the sports that had at least 30 tests conducted. The sports are presented in order of the number of tests conducted. Athletics had the largest number of tests conducted (158) and the sport accounted for over 20% of all of the tests on the National Programme. Athletics, Cycling, GAA and Rugby between them account for over half of all the test conducted. The figure for GAA is for the male games in hurling and football. It excludes the 4 tests on camogie players and 2 tests on players from Ladies Gaelic Football.
The ISC decompose the figures between Urine test and Blood tests. The table below lists the top sports for each type of test. Three sports make the top-5 for both urine tests and blood tests. These sports are Athletics, Cycling and GAA. The other sports to make the top-5 Urine tests are Swimming and Boxing. In terms of blood tests, Rugby and Soccer are in the top-5. Rugby tops the list for blood tests as all its National Programme tests are blood tests (no urine tests).
The ISC decompose the figures between Urine test and Blood tests. The table below lists the top sports for each type of test. Three sports make the top-5 for both urine tests and blood tests. These sports are Athletics, Cycling and GAA. The other sports to make the top-5 Urine tests are Swimming and Boxing. In terms of blood tests, Rugby and Soccer are in the top-5. Rugby tops the list for blood tests as all its National Programme tests are blood tests (no urine tests).
The ISC decompose the figures between tests that are conducted In-Competition and those that are conducted Out-of-Competition. The table below lists the top sports for each type of test. The team field sports of GAA, Rugby and Soccer top the list for In-Competition tests. All of the GAA and Soccer tests are conducted In-Competition. The Out-of-Competition sports might be classified as individual sports (accepting that these athletes frequently are part of an Irish team). Athletics and Cycling account for over half of all Out-of-Competition testing between them.
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