LONDON (AP) — Eight years later, the IOC is considering retesting doping samples from the Athens Olympics to catch any drug cheats who may have avoided detection.
With the frozen samples set to be destroyed this summer after eight years in storage, IOC medical commission chairman Arne Ljungqvist tells The Associated Press that the Olympic body is likely to retest some for substances that can now be detected — including insulin and human growth hormone.
Ljungqvist says, “I think we will do something.”
The International Olympic Committee has previously retested samples from the 2006 Winter Games in Turin and 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
