A lot about cheating due to lack of testing/leadership - likely to really taint the Olympics.
I mean, this sounds regulatory not physically impossible. I get what you're saying but there are examples elsewhere. F1 settled on singular fuel and tire suppliers to avoid this type of situation. The waxes can be created and provided to the sporting body for random distribution. If they are tested and found to be changing wax composition, they are simply punished. I get there may be entrenched resistance...it was this way in F1 too. However, that doesn't mean impossible. They could even specify waxing by sporting body techs only to eliminate this variable, especially when it's so important.@scott43 not gonna happen Wax, especially in xc, is just too important. Even with "one supplier"/same manufacturer you get even today (or still today) different waxes if you are "the right" team, then the rest of others.
Difference between fluoro and new non-fluoro waxes is so huge, that those using it, and most likely will never get properly caught by current testing methods, will gain more then if they would be fully and utterly doped to the gills, while everyone else would be clean.
They could just have standard waxes.. one supplier.
ECU's are a good example. One box everyone has to use. Crazy talk until someone said, no, this is how it is.Tough change to make, but after a few seasons of "sorting" MotoGP made it work with tires.
. Only solution, if they really want to ban fluoro, which is ridiculous in first place, as those few kg of ski waxes they produce in a year, are least of world's pollution problem, is to invest proper amount of money and time to develop properly working testing machine. Not what they did until now, but to take this project way more seriously as they did