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Doping-Athletics chief does not expect THG epidemic
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Doping-Athletics chief does not expect THG epidemic
Lamine Diack, president of the world athletics body IAAF, does not expect an epidemic of positive drug tests for the designer steroid THG. Diack told that retroactive testing of 400 samples from the athletics world championships in Paris could be completed by the end of November.
The BALCO laboratory in California is run by former musician Conte and is the focus of an investigation by the US Anti-Doping Agency. A grand jury has launched an investigation into BALCO which makes nutritional supplements. ?Our sport faces a menace. If in a country like the United States a musician can be the owner of a laboratory and advise athletes, we are heading towards a catastrophe. (...)We are where we are today because the United States have proved to be lax.?
Conte has consistently denied supplying athletes with banned substances or any other wrongdoing. Diack said he expected to have the results of THG tests on the B, or second, samples from the US national championships in about 10 days. ?If they confirm positive cases, we will ask the (French) laboratory to test the world championship samples for THG. It should take another two to three weeks to test all 400 samples.?
Diack said he was not worried if a string of positive tests robbed the 2004 Olympics of top names and said he wanted to widen doping sanctions to include trainers and managers, not just athletes. ?I don?t care if some stars miss the Games. They will be replaced by others.? Jesse Owens is dead, Carl Lewis no longer competes but athletics continues.
?We want to reinforce our system of sanctions and include trainers, managers and other people who surround athletes, so that the latter are not the only people punished when they test positive. Perhaps they will have their licences withdrawn or face financial sanctions.? Diack said the fight against doping would be the centrepiece of an IAAF meeting in Berlin on November 22 and 23.
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