Sporting Digest: Drugs in sport
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A German Athletics Federation doctor, Karlheinz Graff, has said he suspects several German athletes of taking erythropoietin or using some form of blood doping. Graff said he had received requests from two athletes for plasma, which can be used to fight blood thickening which might result from taking erythropoietin.
South Korea have pulled their women's artistic gymnastics team out of next month's Asian Games in Bangkok after four of the squad failed drug tests. The Korea Gymnastics Association also sacked three coaches.
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