Leaked test indicates doping scandal – Helsingborgs Dagblad

The analyzes also show over 800 athletes, was the seventh named in files, has left a blood sample of the experts described as “clear evidence of doping, or at least abnormal values” .

– Never have I seen so alarming abnormal results of blood tests. So many athletes seem to have doped themselves with impunity, and it is reprehensible that the IAAF only seems to have sat and watched and let this pass, says Robin Parisotto, one of the experts who analyzed the material to The Sunday Times.

– At one time the whole podium filled with athletes who according to me very likely been doped at some point during their careers, says the second doping expert Michael Ashenden, in an interview with ARD, AFP reports.

Åke Andrén-Sandberg, medical an expert in the Swedish Sports doping commission, said that the high blood values ​​indicate a widespread cheating. But he is careful to point out that they do not prove anything.

– You can see that it is something that is not normal, that they have something JUGGLERY separately. But you can not see what it is for something, he said.

Abnormally high blood levels just shows a suspected effect of a prohibited preparations . The normal order is to follow up with urine samples to see if you can find remnants of the preparation.

There have no doubt Åke Andrén-Sandberg to be done in these cases. But a blood doping substances like EPO is difficult to detect when it goes out of your body after a few days.

– If you compare how we are doing in Sweden for suspected blood test, we would take lots of urine samples at them again and again . If they are engaged in doping so they understand that they must stop it before they are discovered, or so goes the firm.

IAAF says to The The Sunday Times that the union has systematically followed up all abnormal values, has taken immediate urine test when the EPO suspected and tested the identified athletes on both competition and training. The leaked database can not know anything about the follow-up tests, claiming the IAAF, which also questions the accuracy of the sample taken before 2009 when the “biological passport” that continuously logs bloodwork was introduced.

Meanwhile, the International Anti-Doping Agency WADA ” very concerned “over the leaked data.

– This is wild accusations, including allegations and we will examine them, said WADA chairman Craig Reedie at a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, according to Reuters.

An independent commission investigate earlier allegations of mass doping among athletes. The Commission will now look at the new evidence, said Craig Reedie.

If only three weeks of commencement of the World Athletics Championships in China. Before that, the IAAF elect a new chairman: Pole vault legend Sergey Bubka from Ukraine stands against the former British middle-distance switch Sebastian Coe, who promised tougher measures against doping and independent testing.

The leaked blood test results shows that stars like the Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, multiple gold medalist in the Olympics and world championships and British Mo Farah, Olympic champion in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters in London in 2012, recorded any abnormal values.