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Retesting Nails 6 Olympic Drug Cheats

New technique exposes athletes' use of banned blood booster

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 29, 2009 6:07 AM CDT

(Newser) – Six Olympic drug cheats have been exposed long after the end of the 2008 Beijing Games, CNN reports. The IOC—which keeps test samples on file for eight years after events finish—rechecked 948 samples after a new test for a banned blood booster was...   Read full story »

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