The IAAF has provisionally suspended 28 athletes for suspected doping offences at the 2005 and 2007 world championships in Helsinki and Osaka, world athletics’ governing body announced on Tuesday.
Most of the athletes concerned have since retired, and none are competing at this month’s world championships in Beijing, the IAAF stated.
A total of 32 rogue results from the two championships were uncovered after re-examination of urine samples stored at a World Anti-Doping Agency accredited-laboratory (LAD) in Lausanne.
The latest scientific breakthroughs in anti-doping technology and analysis have been employed in the reanalysis of these samples to allow us to find previously undetectable substances.
— Martial Saugy, LAD director.
The IAAF said re-testing of the 2005 and 2007 samples had nothing to do with the recent allegations of mass doping in athletics.
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