The concept of prescription no longer exists for the IOC when it comes to the fight against doping. Richard Budgett, the medical director of the Olympic institution, announced on Wednesday March 18 that several hundred samples taken during the Summer Games in Beijing in 2008 would be tested again at the anti-doping laboratory in Lausanne. The operation has already started on samples taken in Beijing, but also in Vancouver in 2010 and in London in 2012. And the operation will continue over the coming weeks. According to the new WADA code, it is now possible to analyze samples up to 10 years after a doping test.
— Published March 19, 2015
