11 Countries Sign Accord to Fight Doping
The United States, Soviet Union and nine other countries signed an agreement today described as a turning point in the fight against drugs in international sports.
The accord, patterned after a landmark U.S.-Soviet pact, calls on the countries to test each other’s athletes for use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.
Joining the United States and Soviet Union in signing were sports officials from Australia, Britain, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Norway, South Korea, Sweden and West Germany. Canada attended as an observer.
The accord will be supervised by the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Commission.
The commission president, Prince Alexandre De Merode of Belgium, said the agreement marked “a turning point in the fight against doping.”
Its centerpiece is a commitment to carry out mutual cross-testing of each other’s athletes in and out of competition.
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