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Article: Professional tennis players to be drug tested for EPO. (Sports).
- Article from:
- Drug Detection Report
- Article date:
- September 19, 2002
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By month's end, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) will present its final rules to test tennis players for EPO (erythropoietin) to the ATP, the WTA and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) boards.
Once signed by the boards, the new testing will go into effect, which will be as soon as possible--no later than the start of the 2003 season, Richard Ings, executive vice president of rules and regulations at ATP, told DDR.
The test, a urine test backed up by a blood test, has become valid within the last couple of years because of improved science as has been shown in Salt Lake City when two Olympic athletes were stripped of their gold metals ...