The World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) said it was “very alarmed” by claims that a third of Olympic and world championships medals, including 55 golds, for endurance events were won by athletes who recorded suspicious doping tests.
The data, claimed to be represent the biggest leak of blood-test data, covers 12,000 tests from 5,000 athletes and was given to the Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD by a whistleblower at the International Association of Athletics Federations.
The newspaper says none of the athletes involved was stripped of their medals and that the leak lifts the lid on “the extraordinary extent of cheating by athletes at the world’s most prestigious events”.
The report also claims that at least 800 athletes – one in seven of those named in the files – have recorded blood-test results described by an expert as “highly suggestive of doping or at the very least abnormal”. Full story...
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The data, claimed to be represent the biggest leak of blood-test data, covers 12,000 tests from 5,000 athletes and was given to the Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD by a whistleblower at the International Association of Athletics Federations.
The newspaper says none of the athletes involved was stripped of their medals and that the leak lifts the lid on “the extraordinary extent of cheating by athletes at the world’s most prestigious events”.
The report also claims that at least 800 athletes – one in seven of those named in the files – have recorded blood-test results described by an expert as “highly suggestive of doping or at the very least abnormal”. Full story...
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