BRUSSELS (AP) — IOC President Jacques Rogge says he does not expect a “flood of positive cases” when the Olympic body retests doping samples from the 2004 Athens Games before they are destroyed this summer.
The International Olympic Committee has previously retested samples from the 2006 Winter Games in Turin and 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.
Rogge said Monday that doping tests in 2004 were “already very sophisticated” and he did not expect a spate of positive results.
He says: “Naturally, we will test them again to study all the possibilities.”
The Beijing retests caught five athletes for use of CERA, an advanced version of the blood-boosting drug EPO. Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain was retroactively stripped of his gold medal in the 1,500 meters.
