Athletistic/Others. The head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA), Victoria Loginova, said that some foreign laboratories refused to test samples from participants in the Friendship Games, scheduled for September 15-29 in Moscow and Yekaterinburg.

“We are preparing and considering how the samples of the participants of the Friendship Games and the BRICS Games will be analyzed. I would like to emphasize that RUSADA will not fully implement this procedure. However, we understand that all samples will be sent to accredited laboratories outside the country We were faced with laboratory refusals to process competition samples of the new format.

The laboratories were warned of possible difficulties due to the excitement in the press and the declarations of the leaders of international sports organizations. As a result, they began to refuse to fulfill these orders. We are taking all necessary measures to ensure that anti-doping control is carried out,” TASS quotes Loginova.

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