EPO
tests will be made at World Half Marathon Championships
IAAF Release
4 October 2001 - Monaco - Following an agreement among the IAAF, UK Athletics, UK Sport and the IAAF's Anti-Doping testing specialists IDTM, testing for EPO will be carried out at the 10th World Half Marathon Championships which take place in Bristol on Sunday 7 October. This will be the first time that blood and urine doping control for EPO is carried out at a British sporting event.
The test procedure will be the same as that carried out in Edmonton, at the recent IAAF World Championships, where 50 athletes were tested for EPO.
