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The world championships in Osaka later this month will be subject to the largest anti-doping program ever, track & field's international governing body announced today.
More than 1000 testing samples will be collected both before and during The 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics, which begin on August 25, eclipsing the 885 tests conducted at the 2005 championships in Helsinki, Finland.
“The IAAF is determined to ensure that these Championships highlight our on-going and aggressive commitment to the war on doping,” said IAAF President Lamine Diack, in a press statement.
“We know that the overwhelming majority of our athletes compete fairly, so it is for their sake that we must do all we can to chase down and sanction those who attempt to cheat and lie through the use of doping practices," Diack said.
“We will not tell the athletes what tests we will conduct, nor when," Diack said. "However anyone considering cheating should be aware we will use every available method to catch them and that should we choose to do so, we can store their samples for testing at a later date."
The testing isn't only limited to the global championships. Since January of this year, the IAAF has collected more than 1000 unannounced out-of-competition samples as athletes prepared and trained for Osaka.
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