Rio de Janerio, Aug 5: About 100 doping samples collected at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London tested positive for performance-enhancing substances following a recent realysis, the president of the Intertiol Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach has said. “I think you are aware of the many measures we (IOC) have been undertaking,” Bach said addressing a news conference after the 129th IOC session here on Thursday, reports Tass. “We undertook a proposed comprehensive realysis programme ever with regard to the Olympic Games 2008 and 2012,” he said. “With this realysis programme, we have already identified that nearly a hundred athletes tested positive and they cannot participate in these Olympic Games.”
The world’s top Olympic official also said that all collected doping samples from the upcoming Summer Olympics in Brazil would be stored for the next ten years and would be subjected for re-tests at any moment.
“The doping samples of Rio 2016 will be stored for ten years for realysis at any time appropriate,” Bach said.
Bach added that beginning with the Olympics in Brazil the responsibility of imposing pelties on athletes guilty of doping abuse would rest with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne instead of the IOC. “Starting with Rio the sanctioning of doping cases at the Olympic Games will not be done anymore via the IOC, but it will be handled independently by the Court of Arbitration for Sport,” the IOC president added. IANS