The International Amateur Athletics Federation, the world governing body of track and field, has decided to impose year-round drug tests on athletes, in training and in competition, under new procedures designed to prevent the use of illegal substances, the head of its Medical Commission announced.
The commission intends to conduct random tests everywhere and at all times, ”to chase the cheaters right into their training havens and catch them red-handed,” IAAF Vice President Arne Ljungqvist of Sweden, who also heads the Medical Commission, said.
”We are fully aware that people are working on substances which
`conceal` the use of drugs. And we are equally aware that many athletes take drugs for a given period and then stop before official competitions so they can`t be detected,” Ljungqvist said. ”So we have to strike back with the weapons we have: Our authority and efficiency.”
He said probenecid, first mentioned at the Pan American Games earlier this month as a potential drug concealer, is not on the list of banned drugs but that should tests prove it or other substances conceal drugs, ”we will ban them.”
University of Nebraska football player Broderick Thomas was booked into jail on two counts of resisting arrest Monday after a struggle with four officers at his apartment and five officers at the jail, police said. Two police officers went to Thomas` apartment at around 9 p.m. to arrest him on a county bench warrant for failure to comply with a court order to pay a fine for violating a traffic signal. Thomas told the officers he had just paid several fines and had the receipts in his car, said Lt. Lyle Roberts. The officers checked the receipts but they did not pertain to the warrant the officers were serving, Roberts said. Thomas still refused to go with the officers and two additional officers were called to the scene, Roberts said. After a struggle with the four officers, Thomas was handcuffed, put in leg restraints and taken to jail, Roberts said.
A man who claims to be a member of the San Francisco 49ers is setting up women to be raped, Portland, Ore., police say. The man, who has no known connection with the NFL club, apparently has treated at least five women to dinner or drinks in Portland restaurants or bars before attacking them at gunpoint, said Sgt. Wally Turay of the Portland Police Bureau`s Sex Crimes Unit. The rapist identifies himself as Michael Cooper. However, all the 49ers are in training camp near Sacramento, Calif., according to Jerry Walker, a team spokesman. He also said no one by the name of Michael Cooper had ever played for the 49ers.
