Record Number of Doping Tests in Incheon

(ATR) More doping tests than ever before will be carried out at the 2014 Asian Games.

The 2014 Asiad Organizing Committee told Korean news agency Yonhap that 1,920 doping tests will be conducted during the games. The 2010 Asiad in Guangzhou conducted 1,500 doping tests.

For the event, 1,600 urine sample tests will be conducted along with 160 blood samples and 160 tests for the banned blood booster EPO. Of the tests, 1,621 will be in-competition tests, while 299 will be random out-of-competition tests.

"Most of the tests will be done on medalists," Park Joo-hee, head of the doping control team for Incheon 2014, said to Yonhap.

"But even those who get knocked out of their events early won't be able to let their guard down."

The Korean Institute of Science and Technology will perform the doping tests within 24 hours of their doing.

Incheon 2014 will use the "no needle" policy that the IOC began enforcing in the London 2012 Olympics.Athletes will no longer be able to possess syringes as they could be used for doping on site.

To prepare for the 2014 Asiad, the Court of Arbitration for Sport will open an ad hoc division on site at the games for the first time.

The CAS office will be open from September 15 to October 4 and will be headed by CAS Secretary General Matthieu Reeb, Michael Hwang of Singapore was elected president of the ad hoc division, and six arbitrators will serve during the games.

Written by Aaron Bauer

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