Dan Rozanski isn’t skilled at curling, he doesn’t luge, and he’s not a biathlete.

Dr. Monica Spaulding doesn’t play hockey, and she isn’t a downhill skier.

But the two Western New Yorkers will be in Vancouver, British Columbia, over the next month for the 2010 Winter Olympics, helping to test athletes for performance-enhancing drugs.

“I have two scheduled days off,” said Rozanski, a registered nurse at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Buffalo.

Rozanski and Spaulding are among more than 5,500 athletes and officials descending on Vancouver this month for the Winter Games.

The U. S. Anti-Doping Agency selected 20 testers, including Rozanski and Spaulding, to help their Canadian peers.

“This is probably the most intensive testing ever done at a Olympics,” said Spaulding, a professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo.

This is Rozanski’s first Olympics, but it is Spaulding’s fourth.

They have extensive experience coordinating the testing of amateur, collegiate and professional athletes for illegal street drugs, steroids and other substances banned in competition.

“They’re very efficient; very professional; very easygoing,” said Paula Browning, UB’s assistant athletic trainer, who organizes the testing program for the varsity athletes.

Spaulding, a retired oncologist who worked at VA Medical Center, got involved in drug testing of athletes in 1993. She said she was drawn to testing because it was a way to be involved in athletics, which she always enjoyed, and it was a change of pace from her job.

Spaulding initially worked for the U. S. Olympic Committee as a drug tester and trainer of drug testers, before the U. S. Anti-Doping Agency took over this country’s testing program. Rozanski got involved in drug testing after Spaulding told colleagues at VA Medical Center that she needed someone to help.

Rozanski has been testing for about 12 years and is, like Spaulding, certified as a doping- control officer by the agency. He works for a company that has coordinated drug testing for Major League Baseball, National Football League and National Hockey League teams.

Last week, Rozanski and Spaulding were coordinating testing for a group of UB athletes in a room in UB Stadium.

UB tests all varsity student-athletes for illegal street drugs, and this group of athletes was told in a phone call that morning to show up for testing. Rozanski and Spaulding collected specimens from the athletes, ensuring that the urine wasn’t diluted and had an acceptable acidity level, and prepared them for shipping to a lab.

After the testing was over, Rozanski was going to head over to nearby Alumni Arena to administer a surprise drug test to a potential Olympic athlete.

“He has no clue I’m coming,” Rozanski said.

Rozanski and Spaulding applied through the anti-doping agency to win one of the 20 American spots working at the Olympics with their Canadian counterparts.

Rozanski said he will be there for about a month. He will receive a stipend from the Vancouver organizing committee, which also is paying for his hotel room, meals and air fare.

Rozanski will conduct pre-and post-competition tests. He mainly will test figure skaters, short-track speed skaters and curlers.

Spaulding largely will test ski jumpers, cross-country skiers and biathletes, as well as participants in other sports, beginning Wednesday.

During previous Olympics, Spaulding said, she and the athlete often were joined in the testing room by the athlete’s representative, a translator, a medical technician to draw blood if needed, and another doping-control officer.

“It’s very regimented and formal,” said Spaulding, who has worked at the Games in Atlanta and Salt Lake City, along with Nagano, Japan.

Spaulding said she understands the pressure athletes at the highest levels of amateur and professional sports can face to improve their performance, by whatever means necessary.

“I don’t condone it at all,” she said, adding, “The hope is that it will all be clean.”