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2008 a triumph for dope testers
[SIZE=-1]Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Suspecting that the results were too good to be true, the IAAF started storing Russian dope samples taken during competition throughout the 2007 season.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The upshot was a meticulous sting operation this year after which seven Russian women were informed that the urine they had supplied was clearly not theirs because the DNA did not match that in the stored samples. Five of them, including the world number one 800 and 1,500 metres runner Yelena Soboleva, had been bound for the Beijing Olympics.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A clear victory for the testers over the cheats, 20 years after the Ben Johnson doping scandal had revealed the extent of illicit doping in the central sport of the summer Olympics, was rightly trumpeted.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]Stuff.co.nz, New Zealand [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Suspecting that the results were too good to be true, the IAAF started storing Russian dope samples taken during competition throughout the 2007 season.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The upshot was a meticulous sting operation this year after which seven Russian women were informed that the urine they had supplied was clearly not theirs because the DNA did not match that in the stored samples. Five of them, including the world number one 800 and 1,500 metres runner Yelena Soboleva, had been bound for the Beijing Olympics.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]A clear victory for the testers over the cheats, 20 years after the Ben Johnson doping scandal had revealed the extent of illicit doping in the central sport of the summer Olympics, was rightly trumpeted.[/SIZE]
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