With the World Cup officially up and running for
the past few days we are just now getting the results for all of the players
drug tests. It was announced before the World Cup began that all the
players would be getting either urine, hair, or a combination of all drug
tests.
FIFA says all 800 players that have given
samples in its World Cup doping program tested clean so far.FIFA also says
players chosen for samples after the first nine matches- including the Switzerland-Ecuador
early kickoff on Sunday - tested negative.
The figures include samples from 91 percent of
players included in the 30-man preliminary squads for the 32 teams.FIFA
reported no problems getting blood and urine samples to the World Anti-Doping
Agency laboratory in Switzerland.
FIFA's chief medical officer Jiri Dvorak says ''all worked well
including the transport from Manaus.'' Italy played England in
the remote Amazon jungle city on Saturday.
Dvorak says in a statement ''all samples arrived
under 36 hours in Lausanne and were processed within 24 hours.''
WADA revoked the Rio de Janeiro lab's
accreditation last year.
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