KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Three weeks before the world championships, athletics was thrown into turmoil by new accusations of widespread doping and experts denouncing an anti-doping system compromised by leniency.
The World Anti-Doping Agency responded to the "wild allegations" made by two European media outlets of suspicious drug tests in athletics by asking an independent body to investigate.
WADA President Craig Reedie said Sunday he was surprised by the scale of the allegations, including that one-third of medals in endurance races at the Olympics and world championships over a 10-year period were won by athletes who recorded suspicious doping tests.