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Less than three months before the opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics, the antidoping laboratory in Russia charged with conducting drug screenings at those Winter Games has been deemed unreliable and may lose its authority to test Olympic athletes.
The World Anti-Doping Agency learned this week that the drug-testing facility, in Moscow, has fallen below the agency’s standards. A team of laboratory experts reported those findings to officials at the antidoping agency and recommended that the lab be stripped of its accreditation. That would leave the Sochi Games, in February, without a competent drug-testing facility in the country.
The World Anti-Doping Agency president, John Fahey, said Friday that he would decide whether or how to discipline the lab.
“The paperwork is extensive,” Fahey said here at the conclusion of the agency’s four-day World Conference on Doping in Sport. “It needs to be worked through in the proper fashion to get the correct outcome.”
Fahey would not elaborate on the problems. Over the summer, the Russian lab discovered seven positive samples from the world track and field championships in Moscow, and all seven athletes immediately accepted penalties or temporary bans.
Antidoping officials with knowledge of the situation said the Russian lab had produced false-positive tests during the antidoping agency’s routine evaluation process, which entails blind and double-blind testing of urine and blood samples for banned drugs. Testers at the lab also failed to catch samples that contained banned drugs. That would be less of a problem than the false positives, but still of major concern, those officials said, because it signals that the lab is unable to perform its job. Those officials did not want their names used because the case is continuing.
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Russia, however, is not the only host of a major international sporting event that was recently shown to have inadequate drug testing facilities. In August, less than a year before the World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil, the antidoping agency revoked the accreditation of the lab in Rio de Janeiro, the host city. Antidoping officials said the lab had repeatedly produced false positives when the antidoping agency tested it.
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The World Anti-Doping Agency learned this week that the drug-testing facility, in Moscow, has fallen below the agency’s standards. A team of laboratory experts reported those findings to officials at the antidoping agency and recommended that the lab be stripped of its accreditation. That would leave the Sochi Games, in February, without a competent drug-testing facility in the country.
The World Anti-Doping Agency president, John Fahey, said Friday that he would decide whether or how to discipline the lab.
“The paperwork is extensive,” Fahey said here at the conclusion of the agency’s four-day World Conference on Doping in Sport. “It needs to be worked through in the proper fashion to get the correct outcome.”
Fahey would not elaborate on the problems. Over the summer, the Russian lab discovered seven positive samples from the world track and field championships in Moscow, and all seven athletes immediately accepted penalties or temporary bans.
Antidoping officials with knowledge of the situation said the Russian lab had produced false-positive tests during the antidoping agency’s routine evaluation process, which entails blind and double-blind testing of urine and blood samples for banned drugs. Testers at the lab also failed to catch samples that contained banned drugs. That would be less of a problem than the false positives, but still of major concern, those officials said, because it signals that the lab is unable to perform its job. Those officials did not want their names used because the case is continuing.
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Russia, however, is not the only host of a major international sporting event that was recently shown to have inadequate drug testing facilities. In August, less than a year before the World Cup soccer tournament in Brazil, the antidoping agency revoked the accreditation of the lab in Rio de Janeiro, the host city. Antidoping officials said the lab had repeatedly produced false positives when the antidoping agency tested it.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/16/s...ay-be-banned-from-testing-olympians.html?_r=0
