Last year in the run-up to the Olympics the ITU President, Les McDonald, made some remarks about the apparently high percentage of registered asthmatics among the elite. The implication was that the inhalers were, somehow, being used as performance enhancers. Anyway, it looks like the whole issue is back on the agenda again according to this article by Steven Downes on the Inside Triathlon website. What is really shocking is the revalation that the ITU had budgeted just $2,000 for drugs testing last year. The cost of disputing a single case in the courts could make this seem like pocket change.