Ioc Ignores Flunked Tests

Thu., Nov. 28, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

The number of athletes who flunked tests for steroids at the Atlanta Olympics will stand at two, despite the findings of a sophisticated lab machine.

The International Olympic Committee said it would ignore five other samples from the Summer Games that were detected by the high-tech equipment and found to contain the banned strength-builders.

To avoid legal action, the IOC has not identified the athletes or their sports.

Prince Alexandre de Merode, chairman of the IOC’s medical commission, also said a new method of detecting the performance-enhancing drug EPO will not be ready for months.

The disputed samples from Atlanta were tested by new, much-heralded machines, which cost $500,000 each. But the IOC said it could not rely on the results because of “several technical difficulties” with the spectrometers.

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