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Police raid Austrian Ski Team

by HART on February 19th, 2006

According to the news …

Italian law enforcement authorities raided the residences of some staff members of the Austrian biathlon and cross-country teams early Sunday morning, apparently searching for banned substances, said two separate news reports.

The International Olympic Committee also confirmed it has conducted out-of-competition doping tests on “a number of Austrian cross-country and biathlon athletes,” according to Reuters and Associated Press.

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POSTED IN: Cross Country Skiing, Olympic News

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  • Light the Torch » Austrians Angry Over Police Raid
    Feb 19, 2006 at 10:34 pm

    […] Follow up => to my previous post … Blame the police? Italian law enforcement authorities raided the Olympic residences of Austria’s biathlon and cross-country teams early Sunday, but found no evidence of doping. It marked the first anti-doping police raid on athletes in Olympic history. […]

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