MONACO (AP) — Every athlete at the upcoming track and field world championships is to undergo a blood test in what the sport’s governing body says is an “unprecedented anti-doping program.”
The IAAF says samples will be collected at a doping control station at the athletes’ village from Aug. 18 and analyzed at an onsite doping laboratory and again in Lausanne, Switzerland after the championships.
It is the first time “a heterogeneous population of nearly 2000 elite athletes competing in a major sports event will be blood tested under the same optimal conditions, within the same time period,” the IAAF says.
Around 500 urine samples will also be taken at the worlds, which begin Aug. 27 in Daegu, South Korea.
