Testing, Testing 1-2-3

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The latest trend among athletes who defy expectations--including 41-year-old swimmer Dara Torres--is to request a drug test to deflect suspicion of an artificially enhanced performance.

Those athletes should be careful what they ask for.

Simon Vroemen, a 39-year-old steeplechaser from the Netherlands, ran the third-fastest time in the world this year last month in Germany. After realizing that there might be questions, he then asked to be drug tested.

The test revealed a steroid. Vroemen confirmed this week on his website that the B sample also came back positive.

He has a hearing scheduled Monday before Dutch Olympic and track and field officials and could be removed from the Olympic team.

-- Randy Harvey