MUNDO DEPORTIVO Dopaje y prostitutas en el Rabobank •

El ex corredor holandés Thomas Dekker revela en su autobiografía los excesos en aquel equipo: “El doping era una forma de vida en el Rabobank”, asegura

El ex ciclista del Rabobank Thomas Dekker (Getty) Comparte en Facebook Comparte en Twitter ENVIAR POR MAIL AGENCIAS Actualizado a 15-11-2016 19:09 Transfusiones de sangre, drogas y prostitutas formaban parte del día a día en la carrera deportiva del ex ciclista Thomas Dekker y del equipo Rabobank, según reveló el holandés en su autobiografía. “El doping estaba por todas partes, en nuestro equipo, en otros equipos. Cortisona, bolsas de sangre, pastillas para dormir. Si uno está rodeado constantemente del absurdo, piensa que es normal”, escribió el ex corredor en el libro titulado “Thomas Dekker, mi lucha”. El holandés cuenta cómo los médicos del equipo ofrecían a los corredores todas las mañanas sobre las 06:00 inyecciones de agua para rebajar los parámetros de hematocrito elevados por las dosis de EPO y no llamar la atención en los controles antidoping. Dekker, que se retiró del profesionalismo en 2015, hace en su libro una especie de pintura costumbrista del ciclismo entre 2007 y 2014. “Tomábamos cortisona todos los días. No sé realmente para qué o contra qué. Pero en las carreras podías mantener mayores esfuerzos. Para eso teníamos permisos excepcionales”, explicó Dekker, que en 2010 tuvo que cumplir una sanción por dopaje. Las autorizaciones, llamadas excepciones de uso terapéutico, se encuentran en el ojo de la polémica desde hace meses y forman parte principal de las acusaciones contra el ganador del Tour de France de 2012, Bradley Wiggins, y su equipo Sky. Dekker asegura que su compañero de habitación Michael Boogerd le dijo que durante el Tour

de 2007 se inyectó EPO, una sustancia que eleva los glóbulos rojos en la sangre, ocho veces durante la carrera. El ex ciclista contó también cómo junto con Boogerd contrató los servicios de prostitutas del este de Europa a través de Internet antes del comienzo del Tour 2007 en Londres. “Nos quedamos un poco decepcionados. Eran mucho menos guapas que en las fotos en la web”, escribió el autor. El Tour de aquel año terminó, no obstante, en un gran escándalo para el Rabobank. Su líder, Michael Rasmussen, tuvo que abandonar la carrera cuando vestía el maillot amarillo al descubrirse que había mentido sobre su paradero durante la preparación de la prueba para despistar a los controladores. http://www.mundodeportivo.com/ciclismo/20161115/411889254140/dopaje-yprostitutas-en-el-rabobank.html

MARCA Otros Deportes DopajeDebate auspiciado por la AMA el próximo fin de semana en Glasgow

Dudas y escepticismo ante la reforma antidopaje

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Según se acerca la reunión de la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje (AMA) este fin de semana en Glasgow, la reforma de la lucha contra el dopaje presente en el programa suscita dudas y escepticismo entre los actores del deporte, sobre todo en torno a su financiación. La medida estrella pretendida por el COI es dotar de más independencia a los controles antidopaje confiándolos a una entidad independiente creada por la AMA y no a las federaciones deportivas está en estudio actualmente por la AMA. El grupo de trabajo evaluará la situación al respecto durante la reunión de la AMA.

Pero más allá de la implantación de las reformas que establecen que las sanciones en materia de dopaje sean dictadas por el Tribunal Arbitral del Deporte (TAS) y no por las federaciones, el principal escollo a librar es la falta de financiación. Discrepancias entre federaciones "Respetamos las propuestas de la AMA y del COI, pero van dirigidas más bien a las pequeñas federaciones", afirma Michel D'Hooghe, presidente de la comisión médica de la FIFA, añadiendo que su instancia no renunciará a sus funciones. De la misma opinión es otro responsable de otra federación olímpica, quien bajo el amparo del anonimato, considera la propuesta "más política que práctica". Por contra, para el secretario general de la Federación de tiro con arco, Tom Dielen, "eso no cambiará gran cosa para nosotros porque ya externalizamos los controles". Para el responsable de la lucha antidopaje de una 'pequeña' federación olímpica "todo lo que dote de más independencia a los controles es bienvenido, porque el sistema actual es un poco como si el zorro cuidase el gallinero". El precedente de la UCI "El buen conocimiento del deporte sigue siendo fundamental en la lucha" antidopaje, señala Christophe Misteli, secretario general de la Fundación Antidopaje en el Ciclismo (CADF), "una estructura independiente" que dirige desde el 'caso Armstrong' la lucha antidopaje de la Unión Ciclista Internacional (UCI). "La CADF propone un modelo que ofrece garantías de independencia. Este modelo es exportable a otras federaciones", añade Misteli. La estructura independiente encargada de los controles es una propuesta del COI" Olivier Niggli. director general de la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje "Me duele imaginar que el traspaso de los controles antidopaje de cada federación sea obligatorio", se lamenta el responsable de una modesta federación. La estructura independiente encargada de los controles es "una propuesta del COI", recuerda Olivier Niggli, director general de la AMA. "Corresponderá al COI convencer a las federaciones internacionales de formar parte de ello, de igual modo que le corresponderá asegurar la financiación", añade. El COI, que ya financia la mitad de los 27 millones de dólares del presupuesto de la AMA, acaba de decidir que atribuirá 500.000 dólares suplementarios a condición de que se adopten las reformas. Una idea es pedir a las federaciones que transfieran a la AMA el presupuesto que dedican a la lucha antidopaje. "Es necesario que la AMA busque otras fuentes de ingresos aparte de los Gobiernos o el movimiento deportivo", estima el investigador suizo Jean-Loup Chappelet, aludiendo a

un posible "impuesto a los beneficiarios de un deporte limpio (patrocinadores, televisiones)". Las actividades de la AMA "no son trasparentes, muchas decisiones se toman entre bastidores y eso lo convierte en un instrumento de manipulación, especialmente de naturaleza política", repitió la semana pasada el presidente del comité olímpico ruso, Alexandre Jukov. La AMA había pedido una exclusión total de Rusia de los Juegos de Rio, algo que no aceptó el COI. El lunar ruso "Se habla mucho hoy de reformas del sistema antidopaje y poco de Rusia", responde Niggli. "El principal dossier en curso sigue siendo la cuestión rusa y la manera de asegurar que se instaure un sistema creíble en el país", añade Niggli. "La credibilidad entera de un sistema reformado pasa por una independencia real de las estructuras antidopaje nacionales, entre ellas los laboratorios", apunta otro responsable federativo. El Informe McLaren, que reveló "el dopaje de Estado" en Rusia, y cuya versión final se espera a principios de diciembre, pone de manifiesto el trabajo que aún queda por delante.

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HOY AMA suspende laboratorio antidopaje en Catar Associated PressAssociated Press

La Agencia Mundial Antidopaje (AMA) ordenó que se suspendan las operaciones de un laboratorio en Catar, el cual había obtenido la acreditación formal del organismo apenas hace 15 meses. De acuerdo con la AMA, la decisión de cesar las operaciones en la instalación es "un resultado directo de procedimientos más estrictos de control de calidad, implementados... para garantizar que los laboratorios mantengan los más altos estándares". La decisión entró en efecto la semana pasada, pero no fue sino hasta el lunes cuando fue anunciada por la AMA, en la víspera de que se realice en Doha la asamblea anual de comités olímpicos nacionales. El sitio Web del laboratorio lo describe como "una entidad independiente, bajo las órdenes directas del emir del Estado de Catar". Se trata del quinto de 34 laboratorios acreditados por la AMA que ha suspendido operaciones en todo el mundo. Los otros se ubican en Almaty (Kazajistán) Lisboa, Madrid y Bloemfontein (Sudáfrica). Este año, fueron suspendidos temporalmente los laboratorios en Río de Janeiro y Beijing.

http://www.hoylosangeles.com/sns-bc-dep-oli-catar-dopaje-20161115story.html

WADA November 14, 2016

WADA Suspends the Accreditation of the Doha Laboratory 14 November 2016, Montreal: The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended the accreditation of the Doping Analysis Laboratory in Doha, Qatar for a period of four months.

The suspension, which took effect on 7 November 2016, prohibits the Laboratory from carrying out any anti-doping activities including all analyses of urine and blood samples. During the period of suspension, samples are required to be transported securely to another WADAaccredited laboratory, ensuring that athletes can have full confidence in continued high quality sample analysis and the wider anti-doping system. The decision to suspend the laboratory is a direct result of the more stringent quality assessment procedures enacted by WADA to ensure laboratories maintain the highest standards.

Pursuant to Article 13.7 of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code), the Laboratory may appeal this decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport within 21 days of receipt of notice.

During the period of suspension, the laboratory shall address all non-conformities identified by the Laboratory Expert Group or WADA in any request for corrective action or otherwise, as well as any additional non-conformities identified during any WADA site visit during the suspension period. If the laboratory satisfies the Disciplinary Committee in meeting these requirements, it may apply for reinstatement prior to the expiry of the four month suspension period. Should the laboratory not address the non-conformities by the end of the four-month suspension period, WADA may extend the suspension of the laboratory’s accreditation for an additional six months.

According to the International Standard for Laboratories (ISL), WADA is responsible for accrediting and re-accrediting anti-doping laboratories, thereby ensuring that they maintain the highest quality standards. This monitoring process is conducted in conjunction with ISO assessment by independent national accreditation bodies that are full members of the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC).

Whenever a laboratory does not meet ISL requirements, WADA may suspend the laboratory’s accreditation (see decision below).

Decision of the Chairman of the WADA Executive Committee: 1. That the WADA accreditation of the Laboratory be suspended for a period of four months;

2. That the suspension be effective immediately and be notified to all relevant national public authorities, national accreditation bodies, national anti-doping organizations, national Olympic committees, international federations and the International Olympic Committee, as stipulated in the ISL;

3. That all samples not yet analyzed and all samples currently undergoing “A” or “B” confirmation procedures and all samples where a presumptive analytical finding has been reported as of the date of this decision shall be securely transported with a demonstrable chain of custody to another WADA-accredited laboratory as soon as possible and no later than 14 calendar days following the date of this decision;

4. That during the period of the suspension, WADA shall conduct a site visit at the Laboratory’s expense, on a date to be determined by WADA taking into account the time required by the Laboratory to address the non-conformities identified in this recommendation or otherwise identified by the LabEG.

5. That during the period of the suspension, the Laboratory shall address all non-conformities identified by the LabEG or WADA in any request for corrective action or otherwise, as well as any additional non-conformities identified during any WADA site visit during the suspension

period;

6. That, should any identified non-conformities not be satisfactorily resolved by the Laboratory by the end of the suspension period, WADA may extend the suspension of the Laboratory’s WADA accreditation for an additional period of up to six months in accordance with Article 4.4.13.2.1, para.4 of the ISL; and

7. That upon satisfactory completion of item 5, the Laboratory may apply to the Chair of the WADA Executive Committee for reinstatement prior to the expiry of the four month suspension period. – ENDS –

https://www.wada-ama.org/en/media/news/2016-11/wada-suspendsthe-accreditation-of-the-doha-laboratory

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La AMA decide suspender el laboratorio antidopaje de Doha

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Según ha considerado la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje, por no cumplir con la normativa internacional. Le prohíbe llevar a cabo cualquier actividad. EFE 15 noviembre 2016 10:47h CET

El laboratorio antidopaje de Doha ha sido inhabilitado durante cuatro meses después por, según ha considerado la Agencia Mundial Antidopaje (AMA), no cumplir con la normativa internacional. La decisión de suspender esta central en Qatar, país anfitrión del Mundial de fútbol de 2022, fue el resultado directo de procedimientos de evaluación de calidad más estrictos introducidos por la AMA para asegurar que los laboratorios mantengan los estándares más altos, tal y como publicó el organismo en un comunicado.

La suspensión, que entró en vigor el 7 de noviembre, prohíbe al laboratorio llevar a cabo cualquier actividad antidopaje, incluyendo todos los análisis de orina y muestras de sangre.

Durante este periodo, las muestras deberán ser enviadas a otro laboratorio acreditado por la AMA, "asegurando que los atletas puedan tener plena confianza en el continuo análisis de muestras de alta calidad y en el amplio sistema antidopaje". Por su parte, los responsables del laboratorio de Doha tienen 21 días para apelar la decisión ante el Tribunal de Arbitraje Deportivo (TAS). http://masdeporte.as.com/masdeporte/2016/11/15/polideportivo/147 9203251_121909.html?omnil=mod-act

Ovación Perú Selección se sumó a campaña: 'Dile NO al dopaje, Juego Limpio' Lunes, 14 de Noviembre de 2016

A un día del importante partido contra Brasil por la Eliminatorias Sudamericanas,

los jugadores de la selección peruana de fútbol recibieron la visita de la Comisión

Nacional Antidopaje (CONAD) y no dudaron en unirse a la campaña: Dile NO al dopaje, juega limpio.

Paolo Guerrero, Cristian Cueva, André Carrillo y Alberto Rodríguez se animaron a tomarse una foto con el slogan de esta campaña promovida por la CONAD, órgano adscrito al Instituto Peruano del Deporte (IPD).

Asimismo, el cuerpo médico de la selección nacional recibió de manos del doctor

Víctor Carpio, director ejecutivo de la CONAD, material educativo para ser repartido

entre los jugadores de todas las categorías contempladas por la Federación Peruana de Fútbol (FPF).

De esta manera la CONAD continúa trabajando de la mano con el departamento antidopaje de la FPF, una relación que ha sido aplaudida por representantes de la

Agencia Mundial Antidopaje (WADA – AMA) debido a que son pocos los países en los que ambas instituciones logran trabajar en conjunto.

http://ovacion.pe/seleccion-adulta/seleccion-se-sumo-campana-dile-no-aldopaje-juego-limpio

Inside the games Exclusive: IOC increase WADA funding by $500,000 in return for "active cooporation" with Russian investigation 910

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An extra $500,000 (£396,000/€460,000) funding will be given to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as long as Richard McLaren cooperates with their investigations into Russian doping, insidethegames can reveal. The money, to be given to WADA's special investigations fund, has been awarded with the caveat that a "detailed breakdown of costs for the McLaren Report is received by the IOC" and "Professor McLaren actively cooperates with the Canivet and Oswald Commissions". IOC director general Christophe de Kepper claimed, in a note circulated to IOC members and seen by insidethegames, following the Executive Board in Lausanne on Thursday (November 10), that cooperation with the WADA-commissioned investigation has been made "more difficult" by the anticipated release date having been pushed back until midDecember. Evidence is then expected to be scrutinised by two separate IOC investigations led respectively by French judge and IOC Ethics Commission vice-chair Guy Canivet and by Swiss IOC member Denis Oswald.

McLaren, a Canadian lawyer, is exploring allegations that Russia operated a statesponsored doping system at Sochi 2014 in which tainted samples were illegally switched for clean ones. He has so far refused to share his findings with the IOC.

Christophe de Kepper revealed during the IOC Executive Board in Lausanne that they are providing an extra $500 million to the World Anti-Doping Agency special investigations fund ©Getty Images It is claimed similar systems were also implemented at other events involving Summer and Winter Olympic and Paralympic sport. "IOC Director General Christophe De Kepper gave an update on the progress of the Canivet and Oswald Commissions looking respectively into the alleged Governmentsponsored system of doping in Russia and the question of doping or manipulation of samples concerning the Russian athletes at the Olympic Games Sochi 2014," the letter to the IOC membership revealed. "He said that, as the work of both Commissions is dependent on the findings of the McLaren Report, both Commission chairs require the close cooperation with Professor McLaren, whose own report’s release date has been postponed several times, which makes cooperation more difficult. "Following this update, the Executive Board agreed to the request from the WADA President asking the IOC to match the Governments’ contributions of $500,000 to WADA’s special investigations fund, on the condition that a detailed breakdown of costs for the McLaren Report is received by the IOC and that Professor McLaren actively cooperates with the Canivet and Oswald Commissions." At present, the sports movement and international Governments’ collectively spend close to $30 million (£23 million/€27 million) on a 50-50 basis. insidethegames understands that Canivet's Commission also held meetings with Russian Olympic Committee President Alexander Zhukov and Vitaly Smirnov, the IOC honorary member chairing a Russian doping investigation.

Alexander Zhukov, left, and Vitaly Smirnov met with the IOC Disciplinary Commission this week in Lausanne ©Getty Images The IOC had rejected WADA's call for a blanket Russian ban from Rio 2016, which President Thomas Bach had claimed was the "nuclear option". The IOC instead handed responsibility to International Federations to make decisions about their specific sport and whether Russians should be allowed to compete at Rio 2016. Since then there have been discussions about reforming the global anti-doping system. The IOC Executive Board last month also "unanimously approved the recommendations of the last Olympic Summit with regard to reforming the WADA anti-doping system". Measures to support whistleblowers Vitaly and Yuliya Stepanov, revealed by insidethegames last month, were also approved. This included a consultancy service for former Russian Anti-Doping Agency employee Vitaly and a scholarship for middle distance runner Yuliya to use towards her training.

http://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1043614/exclusive-ioc-increase-wada-funding-by500-million-in-return-for-active-cooporation-with-russian-investigation

CYCLING NEWS 14 NOV 2016

Thomas Dekker book details doping at Rabobank Bogus cortisone TUEs, prostitutes and EPO in the 2007 Tour de France

In 2013, when Michael Boogerd confessed to doping, detailing his use of EPO, blood transfusions and cortisone for the last decade of his career until he retired in 2007, his former Rabobank teammate and compatriot Thomas Dekker refused to comment. "You can ask anything, but I say nothing," Dekker said at the time. •

Dekker: I am 'Clasicomano Luigi' in Fuentes ledger

Then, Dekker had already been banned for EPO, confessed to doping and said that doping was a " way of life at Rabobank ". Now, in the book "Thomas Dekker, mijn gevecht (my fight)", by Dutch journalist Thijs Zonneveld, Dekker lays bare the sordid details of the Boogerd's final Tour de France with doping, bogus cortisone TUEs and prostitutes. Dekker and Boogerd were roommates during the 2007 Tour de France, the then-22-yearold Dekker racing in his very first Tour, Boogerd in his last. In an excerpt of the Dekker book published by AD.nl, Dekker says Boogerd described to him how he had been using the Human Plasma blood bank through his manager Stefan Matschiner to blood dope. In addition to obtaining Dynepo (the blood booster EPO that is made in human cell lines and was thought to be undetectable) from a Slovenian athlete and injecting it eight times during the Tour de France, Dekker describes the abuse of the UCI's Therapeutic Use Exemptions "Every day we use cortisone. The product name is Diprofos. We have a medical certificate," Dekker said. "I wouldn't even know what it's for, it is a sham. With cortisone we can go deeper during the race. And besides, I am nice and thin: I am 68 kilos at 1 meter 88 - I have never been so thin before."

Before the TUE application process was revamped after 2014 , abuse of corticosteroids was commonplace. In 1999, Lance Armstrong received a back-dated TUE after a doping control during the Tour de France detected cortisone. Although Operacion Puerto in 2006 shook the cycling world, Dekker's dystopian description of the 2007 Tour peloton shows that the sport changed little in the intervening year. "The start is in London. We're here a week in advance. On the Thursday before the Tour there is a check by the UCI. My hematocrit is 45, Michael's is 50. He sits on the edge of the edge. He's a risk; one point higher and he falls through the basket at a doping control. The doctors of the team propose every morning at six o'clock, before the controllers can knock to run an infusion of water in his body. That drops your hematocrit two or three points." Dekker then goes on to describe how they were bored of sitting in their hotel room drinking wine, and decided to hire some escorts over the internet. Two Eastern European prostitutes arrive. "Michael and I are a bit disappointed: they are a lot less beautiful than the pictures on the site." Though Rabobank began the Tour with Dekker, Michael Boogerd, Denis Menchov, Óscar Freire, Pieter Weening, Juan Antonio Flecha, Grischa Niermann and Bram de Groot, it was Michael Rasmussen who threw his hand up as the GC leader in the pre-race team meeting. "We need a little laugh," Dekker says. "I think it's great speech. We do not yet know that he lied about his whereabouts, nor that he is full up to his neck with dope - though we suspect he is. We did not know that the team doctors gave him injections Dynepo from our stock, though we hear about it long after the Tour. "Rasmussen turns out to be right; He's very good. In the first real mountain stage of the Tour he is already gone sixty kilometers from the finish. We only see him back after the finish in Tignes, in the yellow jersey." Dekker describes the joyful atmosphere in the team until it comes out that Rasmussen had lied to anti-doping authorities about where he was before the Tour, "We ask Rasmussen nothing. Actually, we do have respect for him. He did it smart, like Boogerd, I think. He has devised a system for himself and apparently it works, because he is riding in the yellow jersey. Simple enough. Doping is everywhere. In our team, other teams. Dynepo, cortisone, blood bags, IV drips and sleeping pills - if you are surrounded by absurdity, you eventually think it is normal." These accounts closely echo those of others such as Tyler Hamilton , who have written about the era. But like many other anecdotes, this one has no happy ending. After accumulating a lead of 3:10 on Alberto Contador on the final mountain stage to the Col d'Aubisque, the team thinks it has the Tour won. But as they exchange high-fives and talk Paris party plans, manager Theo de Rooij gets a phone call and it is "not good news". "We did not believe the Mexico affair would have really serious consequences - until the moment Rasmussen knocks on the door of the room where Boogerd and I lie. When he steps in, I can see from his face that he has been crying. "I am removed from the Tour," he says. Boogerd says, "What? How do you mean?' Rasmussen stammers: "Theo did it. Theo took me out of the Tour."

The team did not understand why Rasmussen had to be pulled out of the Tour for lying about his whereabouts. "Rasmussen lied: so what? Haven't we all done things that are not allowed? The team doctors work nota bene solely for doping. I personally have never talked to De Rooij about doping, but I cannot imagine that he thinks Rasmussen was winning the Tour without doping. Is he stupid? The policy that he and Erik Breukink conduct is at best a kind of tolerance. They demand that we are well in competitions, but they do not know how. They do not ask so that they do not know exactly the facts." Dekker describes the riders going on a bender only to find out in the morning that the team has decided to start the next stage without Rasmussen. "When we get off at the start, we are booed by the audience. They shout "dopers' and 'cheaters' at us. Michael almost punches a guy in the face who calls out something about doping in Dutch. "I drag myself four days to Paris. There was a big party planned for us to drive to Rabobank headquarters with a full yellow train, but instead we come together in just a hall in just a hotel in Paris. There is nothing to celebrate." Thomas Dekker retired from cycling in 2015.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/thomas-dekker-book-details-doping-at-rabobank/

9news.com 3:30am November 15, 2016

Doping athletes 'deserve benefit of doubt' By AAP

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Queensland researchers have called on anti-doping authorities to overhaul their testing regime, with a new study showing many athletes busted for doping aren't given a deserved benefit of the doubt. The James Cook University study of 100 cases of doping in Australia found 23 per cent of sanctioned cases involve claims of accidental or inadvertent doping. One of the report's authors, Associate Professor Stephen Moston, said while some claims strain credibility, others are plausible explanations that suggest innocence - resulting in blameless athletes being punished. Dr Moston said in many cases athletes act in good faith to avoid banned substances but are tripped up by changing ban lists or alternate forms of banned substances. "The World Anti-Doping Agency justifies anti-doping as necessary to protect the spirit of sport, but if the spirit of sport is that you have no way of defending yourself, this goes completely against accepted practises in something like the criminal justice system," he said.

In one of the cases identified in the report, released on Tuesday, an athlete was sanctioned for taking a substance which was merely chemically similar to a substance on a ban list. "When you get cases like that, it really does make you think this is trying to catch people out, rather than to catch the really guilty people," Dr Moston said. He argued it would be better for authorities to interview athletes to detect whether there was an intention to dope or otherwise to have a "reasonable person" standard in anti-doping cases. © AAP 2016 http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/11/15/03/31/doping-athletes-deserve-benefit-ofdoubt