WADA Suspends China’s Only Anti-Doping Laboratory for Recording Erroneous Results

 

By Hugo Lowell

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) late on Thursday suspended the accreditation of Beijing’s national anti-doping laboratory after it failed to register two positive doping samples.

The laboratory’s suspension, which lasts for a maximum of four months, prevents China’s only drug testing facility from carrying out doping analyses on blood and urine samples unless an appeal is submitted to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) within the next 21 days.

“The suspension, which takes effect immediately, prohibits the laboratory from carrying out any WADA-related anti-doping activities,” WADA said in a statement. “During the period of suspension, samples are required to be transported securely to another WADA-accredited laboratory.”

WADA did not specify the reasons for the ban, but the development comes off the back of a WADA probe into doping in Chinese swimming, while the Chinese national anti-doping agency (CHINADA) said the laboratory submitted “two false negative results” during blind tests last year. 

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Source: Euronews