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Doping - Cross-country race: the positive Leghzaoui Morrocan
woman controlled with the EPO FOLDS BACK, May 29 (AFP) - the
Morrocan woman Asmae Leghzaoui, 12th at the short cross-country
race and 18th of the long cross-country race of the Championships
of world 2003 of cross-country race in Lausanne (Swiss), was
controlled positive with érythropoïétine
(EPO), announced Thursday the Moroccan royal Federation of
athletics (FRMA).
Consequently, "Asmae Leghzaoui was suspended for two
years by the commission of discipline", announced the
FRMA in an official statement. It is the second time that
a high level Moroccan athlete is controlled positive after
the case of Brahim Boulami, of which the disagreement with
the international Federation (IAAF) was subjected to the Arbitration
court of the sport (HEAP). The FRMA indicated to have suspended
Asmae Leghzaoui after the reception of a confirmation of the
counter-evaluation of the sample B attesting that the Moroccan
athlete had been controlled positive with the EPO. This unexpected
control on Leghzaoui had been carried out with World of Lausanne,
at the end of March. The female Moroccan selection of short
cross-country race had obtained the bronze medal by teams.
Asmae Leghzaoui, medal-holder of gold of the 10.000 m at
the time of the last Mediterranean Games of Tunis, had realized
in 2002 the best world performance of all times on the 10
km on road in New York with a stopwatch of 30 min 29 dryness.
There is ten days, the Spaniard Alberto Garcia, Champion of
Europe of the 3000 and 5000 m, had announced that it had been
controlled also positive with the EPO in Switzerland. The
IAAF had indicated at the beginning of May that five athletes,
three Messrs and two ladies, had been controlled positive
at the time from World the 2003 of cross-country race. Thursday,
the Federation of athletics of Kenya thus announced that Kenyane
Pamela Chepchumba, 6th of the long cross-country race, was
controlled positive with the EPO at the time of these World.
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