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    IOC denies doping cover up

    AFRICAN CUSTODIAN 4/04/2017 SPORT
    IOC denies doping cover up
     
    The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) have defended their decision not to publicise positive drug tests for clenbuterol at the 2008 Beijing Games after the German broadcaster ARD released a documentary accusing the organisations of keeping the news secret.
    The ARD expose has focused on Jamaican athletes whose urine samples from the 2008 Olympics were found to have small traces of clenbuterol after being re-tested during 2016. Their success in sprints races at those Games, says ARD, “could be exposed as a baseless fairytale”.
    But the IOC admits the clenbuterol positives during last year’s re-analysis of 2008 Games samples involves athletes from a number of countries and different sports and that it made a careful decision not to publicise the results.
    “During the re-analysis of the stored urine samples from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, the laboratory found in a number of cases of athletes from a number of countries and from a number of different sports, very low levels of clenbuterol,” the IOC told AW in a statement.
    “The IOC carefully deliberated whether or not to proceed with these cases. In particular, the IOC consulted with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) who was fully involved in the decision-making process. All of the values were below 1ng/ml and therefore in the range of potential meat contamination cases,” the IOC added, saying it reported the findings to WADA and “after careful consideration” the two bodies concluded “it would be appropriate not to take these cases any further”.
    A WADA statement added that it “determined that the levels were consistent with meat contamination”. The anti-doping body continued: “It is also worth noting that even more clenbuterol cases (in the hundreds) have been prosecuted and have led to sanctions since 2010. Pharmacological intake of clenbuterol for doping purposes does not go unpunished.” - The Authority


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