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Hereunder you find a press release by the IAAF, send out by email 2.52pm
local time (7 hours before the start of the 5000m heats for women here
in Edmonton).

All but one doping sample collected here at the Worlds have come out
negative for use of EPO. Nothing has come out yet as to who the one
exception is (most journalists here are checking their countries as we
speak. There are no reports yet on very nervous delegations or
federation, but team/federation denials are coming in. The guess here is
that the identity/country will leak before the end of the
championships).
Before providing more details, the IAAF has to inform the country first
and probably they will also wait for the result of the B-sample.

Anyway, the press release does say the athlete has already competed in
the championships. That means it is not Russian 5000m runner Yegorova,
so she will without a doudt start in tonights heats. A bit strange that
has to be inferred (wording?) from the press release. The IAAF did not
have any reservations about naming her earlier when supposedly her first
blood readings were suspicous (together with nine others, from which ten
nog only one has been confirmed to be attributed to EPO use).

This 5000 meter sure will be a race we will be watching here in
Edmonton.

Regards,
Wilmar Kortleever

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
International Association of Athletics Federations

RESULTS OF EPO TESTS CONDUCTED IN EDMONTON RECEIVED BY IAAF
9 August 2001
EDMONTON – Canada – Testing of all the samples collected in Edmonton,
and sent to the Lausanne laboratory to be analysed for EPO, has been
completed and the results received by the IAAF.

All samples, with the exception of one, are negative. The athlete whose
sample is not negative has already competed in Edmonton.

According to IAAF regulations, the athlete’s Member Federation will be
informed of the results of the test. The IAAF will only announce the
outcome of the test if the B sample analysis confirms the A sample
result.

ENDS