ITALY: OLYMPIC GAMES - Press conference by IOC President Jacques Rogge says that there is no dope at the Olympic Games.

Record ID: 331928

  • Title: ITALY: OLYMPIC GAMES - Press conference by IOC President Jacques Rogge says that there is no dope at the Olympic Games.
  • Date: 11th February 2006
  • Summary: (W3) TURIN, ITALY (FEBRUARY 10, 2006) (REUTERS) IOC PRESIDENT JACQUES ROGGE WALKING INTO NEWS CONFERENCE AND SITTING DOWN JOURNALIST ENTERING ROOM/ PHOTOGRAPHER (SOUNDBITE) (English) IOC PRESIDENT JACQUES ROGGE SAYING: "All these athletes will have to wait to compete for five more days until the blood levels and the parameters are going down beyond a certain threshold. And secondly at the same time we have also decided at the IOC we are going to test on the normal anti-doping list. But today there is no dope at the Olympic Games." WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE ROGGE WALKING UP STAIRS AND THROUGH A DOOR
  • Embargoed: 26th February 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Topics: Sports
  • Reuters ID: LVACAD9E1J4JRV21PRHBC29W86X
  • Story Text: IOC President Jacques Rogge said on Friday (February 10) that there was no dope at the Olympic Games.
    "All these athletes will have to wait to compete for five more days until the blood levels and the parameters are going down beyond a certain threshold. And secondly at the same time we have also decided at the IOC we are going to test on the normal anti-doping list. But today there is no dope at the Olympic Games," Jacques Rogge said at a news conference.
    Eight cross-country skiers, including an Olympic gold medallist from Germany, have been suspended for five days on health grounds.
    The suspensions drew a swift response from the the German team at the Winter Games who have launched an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport, a team spokesman said.
    The International Ski Federation (FIS) said the skiers had been banned from competing after tests showed they had an abnormally high red blood cell count.
    The suspensions started on Thursday and run until Monday when the eight will be tested again. If the levels remain high they face a further five-day ban.
    The athletes will miss the women's and men's cross-country skiing pursuit races. The women's 15-km and the men's 30-km pursuit are both on Sunday.
    It appeared there was no connection between the suspension of the skiers and the unconfirmed EPO doping cases.
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