• IAAF: accusations ‘based on the gross misinterpretation of incomplete data’
• British athlete relieved to hold defended ‘integrity and credibility’Paula Radcliffe was wrongly accused of doping because three allegedly suspicious blood samples were unreliable and she had “plausible explanations for the results,according to the IAAF.
Athletics’ world governing body has issued a staunch defence of the former British athlete and its own anti-doping protocol, which has been questioned following a leaked cache of blood passport data from 5000 athletes to the German broadcaster ARD and the Sunday Times. The International organization for Athletics Federations vehemently denied that it had “tolerated rampant blood doping in athletics” despite claims that a third of Olympic endurance medallists between 2001 and 2012 recorded suspicious results and that the organisation sat idly by.
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Source: theguardian.com