Doping crackdown to expand as Olympics draw nearer
Olympic leaders have vowed to expand their recent crackdown on doping, pushing for new measures in the two months before the 2016 Summer Games.
At a meeting in Switzerland on Wednesday, the International Olympic Committee’s executive board announced it will double the budget for pre-Games testing with an emphasis on countries such as Russia, Kenya and Mexico, where anti-doping enforcement has come under scrutiny.
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“The IOC will not hesitate to punish anyone within its reach,” the board said in a news release.
Concerns about doping have reached a crescendo, with allegations of cheating in Russia and the recent discovery that many countries have failed to adequately test their athletes.
The IOC said it intends to continue using new technology to retest samples saved from the 2008 Beijing Games and 2012 London Games.
So far, the program has resulted in more than 50 positives among the hundreds of samples reanalyzed.
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