A week before the Worlds we heard from a competition pilot that he had just found out that his NAC was going to require that all the pilots on the team go in for a drug test. The funny part was that the results of the test wouldn't be available until after the Worlds. We wrote to the pilot:

Yes, the FAI participates in the ridiculous World Anti-Doping program, and they say that any competitor can be subject to the testing in the very rude and intrusive way you have been, with no warning. Of course, they don't publicize it, and you are the very first pilot I have ever heard of who actually had to take the test. I am really upset to hear this, not with you but with this whole drug hysteria. This is so unfair.

Just exactly what did the NAC hope to accomplish with this intrusive action in an amateur sport? The pilot was concerned about traces of marijuana. Just exactly how was smoking dope long before he went to the competition supposed to enhance his performance?

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