By Alexia Krause
MONACO
(TheSportsNext) July 25, 2012: The International Association of Athletics
Federations (IAAF) on Wednesday suspended nine track and field athletes from
participation in the London 2012 for their positive dope tests.
Three out of these nine athletes were caught in retests of
samples taken during the last year’s world championships in Daegu, South Korea.
The IAAF said that six of the nine suspended athletes were caught
in the biological passport tests. It is important to mention here that the
biological passport tests capture changes in an athlete’s blood profile.
As per details, the International Association of Athletics
Federations has suspended eight athletes for a period of two years while the
other athlete has been banned for four years.
The IAAF also characterized the doping cases as sophisticated
doping as one case involved human growth hormone while two were related to
synthetic testosterone.
With the suspension orders, IAAF President Lamine Diack made
it clear that the authorities will "do everything in our power to
eradicate cheating."
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