Olympic raid

[epicstruggle]

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Italian prosecutors found more than 100 syringes and 30 packs of drugs, including asthma drugs and antidepressants, in a raid on Austrian Winter Olympics bases, an Italian prosecutor told Austrian television.

They also seized devices for blood testing and blood transfusions in the raid on Saturday on the country's biathlon and cross-country teams, Austrian state television ORF said on its Web site on Monday, quoting Turin prosecutor Raffaele Guariniello.

 

[StefanS]

The test on the athletes' blood and urine will take until tomorrow. When the results are in, there'll hopefully be conclusive evidence, wether or not the biathletes have been doping.

The drugs might have been prescribed and registered medicine. However, the blood transfusions seem worrisome, given that cross-country skiers where involved in a similiar illegal procedure in Salt Lake City 2002.