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Athletics: Suspensions were for political reasons: Russian coach

  • Thursday, 31 July 2008
  • AFP

MOSCOW, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - Russia's national head coach Valentin Maslakov on Thursday claimed political reasons were behind the provisional suspension of seven woman athletes by the IAAF for suspected substitution of doping samples.

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Athletics: Seven athletes banned in samples switch doping row

  • Thursday, 31 July 2008
  • AFP

MOSCOW, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - Seven top Russian woman athletes have been temporarily suspended for the suspected switching of urine samples in drug tests last year, athletics's world governing body IAAF said on Thursday.

The controls showed discrepancies in their DNA samples, the IAAF said, which indicated the samples given were not from the athletes in question.

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Athletics: IAAF suspends seven Russian athletes over DNA convergence

  • Thursday, 31 July 2008
  • AFP

MOSCOW, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - International athletics' ruling body IAAF temporarily suspended six Russian athletes after discovering DNA convergence in their samples given for dope testing last year, the head of Russian athletics federation Valentin Balakhnichev said Thursday.

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Athletics: IAAF suspends six Russian athletes over DNA convergence

  • Thursday, 31 July 2008
  • AFP

MOSCOW, July 31, 2008 (AFP) - International athletics' ruling body IAAF temporarily suspended six Russian athletes after discovering DNA convergence in their samples given for dope testing last year, the head of Russian athletics federation Valentin Balakhnichev said Thursday.

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