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The unfortunate truth about performance enhancing drugs is that they have be in use before WADA can develope tests to find them. The biological passport is aimed to combat this by identifying freak increases in things like haemaglobin levels but that wont really be possible for a little while until base levels have been gathered for all athletes.
This is why they normally catch a load of people at one time, like with CERA in 2005, the drug had been around for a while but there was no test, as soon as a test was developed a load of people got caught.
There is also the fact that independant labs will produce designer steroids for individual athletes, this is what Dwain Chambers made a big statement about after his suspension, obviously if only one guy is taking it WADA never find out about it and thus never test for it so it goes undetected. This is one of the reasons i think it is a bit suspect that a number of riders were suspended for doping in the season following armstrongs retirement. Armstrong retires, what he was on get released for general use, WADA identify it, develop a test, everyone else gets busted, armstrong makes his triumphant return....