On January 30th, 2020, the Spanish Guardia Civil announced that it had disrupted a performance-enhancing drug diversion and trafficking ring operating out of Barcelona, with supplies originating in a Cadiz dialysis clinic. The sheer scale of this raid, aptly named “Operacion Hypoxianet,” again raises doubts about the effectiveness of sports anti-doping programs and testing. It may also foreshadow an emerging policy shift towards drug anti-diversion to reduce sports-related doping, to rebuild athlete trust, and, most importantly, protect public health and safety. The absurd cache found in the seizure – at least 850 pre-filled recombinant erythropoietin (EPO) individual doses, long-known to be abused by athletes to increase endurance – shows that large-scale drug diversion operations connected to sports can thrive for years without exposure. According to El Mundo, the Cadiz connection...