IAAF 鈥榖locked鈥 publication of report
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The world athletics governing body blocked the publication of a report that showed as many as a third of the world鈥檚 top athletes admitted using banned performance-enhancing techniques, The Sunday Times reported.
The authors of the report told the British newspaper that the International Association of Athletics Federations blocked publication of the study, which was carried out four years ago.
However, the IAAF responded by saying there was nothing new about these revelations.
鈥淭he IAAF鈥檚 delaying publication for so long without good reason is a serious encroachment on the freedom of publication,鈥 the University of Tuebingen in Germany, which did the research, said in a statement according to the paper.
Researchers from the university were given access to elite athletes at the 2011 world championships in Daegu, South Korea, and concluded in their research that between 29 and 34 percent of the 1,800 competitors at the championships had violated anti-doping rules in the previous 12 months.
鈥淭hese findings demonstrate that doping is remarkably widespread among elite athletes, and remains largely unchecked despite current biological testing programmes,鈥 the report concluded.
The IAAF responded by issuing a statement denying it had suppressed publication of the document.
鈥淭his is not a new story, having first been raised on German TV in 2013, and those concerns were addressed by the IAAF at the time,鈥 said the statement.
The study was funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency, but it gave the IAAF power to veto publication in exchange for access to the athletes at Daegu, WADA confirmed to the Sunday Times on Friday.
In early August, the newspaper published a separate report on a leaked database of 12,000 blood tests from 5,000 athletes that revealed 鈥渆xtraordinary鈥 levels of doping, and sent shock waves through the sporting world.
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