Around 5000 tests were carried out at the 2012 London Games. Her victory was overturned when she failed a drugs test.
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The accredidation of the lab was suspended by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for “non-conformity with the International Standard for Laboratories”, the WADA said on Friday.
The BDCL was meant to take care of a large part of anti-doping checks during the upcoming Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games, meaning that its closure six weeks before the Games is yet another crisis for Brazil to deal with.
The lab didn’t conform to the International Standard for Laboratories, WADA said in a release.
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The IOC, nonetheless, said on Tuesday that the IAAF is not qualified for choose under which hail a competitor may contend at the Olympics.
If not, the testing of athletes’ samples will have to take place at other WADA approved laboratories, the closest of which is located in Bogota, Colombia.
No details of the laboratory’s latest problems were specified.
The suspended Rio lab actually did lose its accreditation back in August of 2013, which was why it missed the 2014 World Cup, and it’s not looking good for the lab considering that they were just reinstated by WADA previous year. WADA didn’t immediately respond to questions and the lab couldn’t immediately be reached.
The Rio lab is banned from carrying out all anti-doping analysis on urine and blood samples.
This decision is notified to all relevant national public authorities, national accreditation bodies, national anti-doping organizations, national Olympic committees, worldwide federations and the global Olympic Committee, as stipulated in the worldwide Standard for Laboratories.
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The laboratory at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro now has 21 days to appeal WADA’s decision at an arbitration court, with the countdown starting on Wednesday, June 22, when the agency first announced its decision to the lab.
