OCR Text |
Show MfeAescfey, November DAILY HERALD 1 2004 OLYMPICS Break-i-n Shawn Pogatchnik THE sparks controversy over doping scandal China aims for. record drug testing in 2008 f said a portion of Waterf ord international federation can take any disciplinary action in Crystal's backup sample had been stolen Oct. 21 in England. the case. Normally, both samples must be confirmed positive Doyle said police were still inbefore a competitor is considvestigating what documents ered guilty of doping and can be were stolen from the office in Ireland's horse country of stripped of a medaL If Ireland loses the gold, the medal would County Kildare. She said at least two of the headquarters' go to Brazil's Rodrigo Pessoa. After Waterf ord Crystal and five off ices were ransacked. , "It would appear some files rider dan O'Connor won the inwere disturbed and some others dividual show jumping title taken," she said. Aug. 28, an initial doping test Wat erford Crystal was one of turned up traces of a banned four horses testing positive for tranquilizer in the horse's urine. O'Connor declared his innobanned substances at the games. The Irish federation said cence and asked for the second Waterf ord Crystal was given a sample to be analyzed. While O'Connor and his vetsedative after leg injury July 22. The theft of part of the erinarian refused to identify the sedatives administered before horse's backup sample has called into question whether the the Olympics to Waterf ord ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ireland A break-i- n at Ireland's equestrian head quarters fueled talk of conspiracy Tuesday following the theft of a doping sample from the Olympic show jumping champion, the country's only medal winner at the Athens Games. "If you're asking me if this is your garden-variet- y type of burglary or something more sinister, I'd have to say it's the latter," said Avril Doyle, president of the Equestrian Federation of Ireland. Somebody broke into the fed eration's offices overnight, hours after the International Equestrian Federation, or FEI, ' I t THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING China plans a record 4,500 doping tests during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, an increase of 1,000 from the Athens Games. Tuesday's announcement came at a Beijing laboratory that was visited by Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates, former International Olympic Committee vice president Kevan Gosper and Olympic swim champion Grant Hackett. . "China has made great progress in the fight against drugs m sport and they are demonstrating to the world their commitment by doing drug-testin- g more tests than anyone eke" Coates said in a statement re-leased by the ACC ' About 3,000 doping tests were done at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and about 3,500 at the Athens Games. A record ' 24 doping cases were reported J ' by the IOC during the Athens Games. Seven medals, including three golds, were revoked. Coates said officials at the China Doping Control Center ' had assured his delegation that drug testers would work "round the clock" during the ' v " Beijing Olympics. ' Coates and Hackett were in Beijing to sign an agreement with the Chinese Olympic Committee. " . if i , I, - 't , ; 1 1 1, I s I ' Crystal, the Irish national broadcaster RTE on Tuesday obtained an FEI document that identified two drugs found in the horse's first urine sample. One of the drugs, fluphenazine, is used in humans t? treat schizophrenia and paranoia, among other conditions. The other, zuclopenthixol, is an even more powerful anti-psy-chotkv An accompanying document obtained by RTE said both drugs can be used "to make "'hot' horses easier to handle," and so were potentially performance-boosting and illegal. Dr. Martin Herman, a pharmacologist at Trinity College Dublin, said both drugs combat high adredaline levels. X i 'V ooooo 4" " 0 0 t, I r' 'ftr, IH At ' ',f If' V - 4 it f t 0 Oooooooooooooooo OOOOO msm ji ooooo wm fi M: rs v 0 ST20S75R15 6 ply ST20575R14 6 ply ST 20575015 6 ply ' 0 0 p Oooooooooooooooo ooooo ggQfiji ooooo 0 r;;: 1 11 ' r t 0 0 r )i - V- - 0 0 0 0 ooooooooooooooO OOOOO (cgUf?QR ooooo i 0 'y-- lP23y7S8154prQ K J JlJPll 1' 1 V..' fc" Is' ' ' r f 'kit. " ytMfUU.rvi . ,: '!'.., - ..!(:. i I J ... ,. J , o 0 0 0 0 Li - ne..l. .1 . aa vn rftRBvmrrs JVV Vrtl HIIVWI ... f 1 1 ooooooooooooooo- 'J.- - 0 I 0 ..." . 1 fw '4b YOUR NATIONWIDE GUARDIAN ANGEL - JJ |