The IOC full 1000 reanalysis of samples obtained from the official journal of 2010

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An ethics committee of the IOC in charge of investigating the Sochi Games should make its report in a few weeks.

Lausanne — The international olympic Committee (IOC) expects to complete more than 1000 new analyses of samples collected at the Vancouver olympics in 2010, the next month.

Richard Budgett, IOC medical director, said that hundreds of results have already been obtained on the basis of reanalysis. He refused to give more details at a press conference of the IOC.

Each positive test can allow the IOC to suspend athletes who are still active of the olympic Games in Pyeongchang, which is to begin on 9 February in South Korea.

All of the samples from more than 170 Russian athletes who participated in the Vancouver Games have been tested again.

The IOC has requested a re-analysis of samples of all of the members of the Russian team at the Vancouver Games after that the investigator of the world anti-doping Agency, Richard McLaren, was unveiled last year, the existence of a strategy of doping sponsored by the State in anticipation of the olympic Games in Sochi in 2014.

An ethics committee of the IOC in charge of investigating the Sochi Games should make its report in a few weeks.