the surveillance that grows its own evasion economy
Probably about a fourth of the ranking players over, say, fifteen at the Enfield Tennis Academy cannot pass a standard North American GC/MS urine scan. These, seventeen-year-old Michael Pemulis’s nighttime customers, now become also, four times yearly, his daytime customers. Clean urine is ten adjusted dollars a cc.
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The quarterly drug-scan is meant to keep junior tennis clean, and instead it manufactures a second market on top of the first: a quarter of the ranked upperclassmen can't pass, so the dealer who sold them the substance now sells them the clean urine to hide it. Institutional surveillance breeds its own institutional evasion, the same customers twice, and the number — one in four over fifteen — quietly states how thoroughly the "good clean fun" runs on chemistry.