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Legal threat to anti-doping code
[SIZE=-1]BBC Sport, UK [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The legal basis of a key weapon in the fight against drugs in sport is set to be challenged in a Belgian court. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In a move that will alarm global anti-doping authorities, the court will be asked to rule whether "whereabouts" breaks European Union privacy laws. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Whereabouts is the system drug-testers use to track athletes for tests. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Belgian lawyer who helped put the legal challenge together likened the current system "to putting a whole town in prison to catch one criminal". [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"There is no need for all these people to give their whereabouts for the next three months - that's a draconian measure," added Kristof de Saedeleer, a Brussels-based solicitor who specialises in sports law. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]De Saedeleer is acting on behalf of 65 athletes, cyclists, footballers and volleyball players who have been brought together by Sporta, the organisation that looks after the interests of professional sportsmen and sportswomen in Belgium. [/SIZE]
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/front_page/7844918.stm&cid=1295992217&ei=xqp4SbwvkMKVBJi2nL4J&usg=AFQjCNHsrxsCuf0nhPmenlt72RRigAvShw
[SIZE=-1]BBC Sport, UK [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The legal basis of a key weapon in the fight against drugs in sport is set to be challenged in a Belgian court. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]In a move that will alarm global anti-doping authorities, the court will be asked to rule whether "whereabouts" breaks European Union privacy laws. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Whereabouts is the system drug-testers use to track athletes for tests. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The Belgian lawyer who helped put the legal challenge together likened the current system "to putting a whole town in prison to catch one criminal". [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]"There is no need for all these people to give their whereabouts for the next three months - that's a draconian measure," added Kristof de Saedeleer, a Brussels-based solicitor who specialises in sports law. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]De Saedeleer is acting on behalf of 65 athletes, cyclists, footballers and volleyball players who have been brought together by Sporta, the organisation that looks after the interests of professional sportsmen and sportswomen in Belgium. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/front_page/7844918.stm&cid=1295992217&ei=xqp4SbwvkMKVBJi2nL4J&usg=AFQjCNHsrxsCuf0nhPmenlt72RRigAvShw
