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2008 Olympic Games
Strict Doping Policy to be Carried Out at 2008 Olympic
Games
January 7, 2008
 Horse and Hound reported
that the organisation of the 2008 Olympic Games has
announced that strict and quick doping tests will be
carried out in the equestrian discipline at the Games.
"Horse samples always take longer to test than
human ones and we're trying to get more in line with
human testing," said Frits Sluyter, head of the
International Equestrian Federation's (FEI) veterinary
department. " We try to make the testing time as
short as possible, and we are lucky that in Hong Kong
all the staff at
the FEI laboratory [already situated there] will be
dedicated to working on the Olympics."
Sluyter referred to Dr. Terence Wan's research laboratory
where a staff of 43 members work for the racetrack
of the Hong Kong Jockey Club. It is one of four laboratories
which is recognized by the FEI. This Chinese lab tests
about 150 horses with each race event and has a history
of 37 years of correct testing.
After the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, four horses
tested positive to doping, amongst which the individual
gold medallist in show jumping, Waterford Crystal ridden
by the Irish Cian O'Conner. Only one month after the
Games, the results of the doping tests were announced.
This time lapse will be much shorter in Hong Kong.
Source: Horse
and Hound
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