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No Tolerance for Doping in Vancouver

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — IOC president Jacques Rogge is confident that out-of-competition testing and work with Canadian authorities will stamp out drug cheats at the Vancouver Games.

Rogge said Thursday that the lessons of the last two Winter Olympics proved the effectiveness of surprise doping controls and police action when needed. The same strategy will be used next month in Canada, where 2,000 doping tests will be conducted at the Feb. 12-28 Olympics.

“We have a zero-tolerance policy for doping,” Rogge said at the International Olympic Committee’s headquarters. “We are going to continue our policy of unannounced, out-of-competition testing. This is a weapon to trace the cheats. We’re also going to store the samples for eight years, like we did in Beijing.”

Months after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a new test for the endurance booster CERA led to retroactive tests that caught five athletes, including 1,500-meter winner Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain. He has since been banned and stripped of his gold medal.

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