DirtyWorks said:
For me and you, yes. For the determined doper? No.
-Lab needs ISO certification to run the test. Maybe someone with some experience on the testing side can tell us if that is a routine certification or something more complicated.
It's the standard ISO accreditation for laboratories and any tests they are currently doing will, most likely be accredited to the same standard. Basically it's routine, do a training course, prove you can do it reproducibly and accurately with a satisfactory limit of detection (which is dependent on the kit unless the operator is really bad) and you're good to go. Basically it's routine for anti-doping labs.
-Another blood test, meaning after certification this won't be run very often.
Very possible. I'm afraid I can't comment on that as I don't know. I'd assume it has to be requested.
-No clue as to what the cost of running this particular test is either.
Kits are from a company that appears to only sell these kits:
http://www.cmz-assay.com/
This test is based on Andreas Bergmanns' work (paper abstract and full text links -
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19168559) who is based in Berlin. It's obviously a spin-out company set up to sell the kits, the disclosures can be read at the end of the paper, but as such you'd have to email them to request prices and they are probably variable depending on your order size.
Still, maybe one or two minor athletes will fail the IQ test a year or more from now.
They could use this to test stored samples if they want to, so some athletes may be sweating about it.
But yes, 24-36h maximum after use. It's an OOC test really and it's only going to catch someone if the anti-doping authority is lucky with the timing of the sample.
Just a note on CAS judges. I've since learned that CAS panels are populated by people who represent athletes in front of other CAS panels and likely have worked for sports federations. It appears to be a very small group of people who know each other with hopelessly tangled conflicts of interest.
Very interesting, although not unexpected. Thanks.