IOC expects an increase in the number of doping scandals during the Beijing Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) predicts the potential growth of positive doping tests during the upcoming summer games. The head of the scientific and medical department of the IOC Patrick Shamash explained this by an increase in the number of samples that will be taken from the athletes in Beijing, as well as the improvement of research methods.

"If you look from a mathematical point of view, the more tests are carried out, the higher the probability of detecting prohibited drugs or other violations of the rules of the World Anti -Doping Agency (Vada)," he said.

According to him, 4.5 thousand tests will be held during the Olympics, of which 1.3 thousand on the eve of the competition. To date, he said, less than 100 samples have been taken, ITAR-TASS reports.

“We must conduct“ clean ”games,” the representative of the IOC is convinced. Shamash paid special attention to the latest method for finding growth hormones in athletes, which are among the prohibited drugs. However, once again emphasized that all this is kept in the strictest secret, since the growth hormone is one of the most popular doping in the sports environment.

Recall, on the eve of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), removed five Russian athletes from participating at the Olympics. The reason is called the mismatch of the DNA of athletes in doping tests taken in 2007.