Topic: Doping Test in China

[Walter Bailey]

I know that after the world championships etc it always takes forever for the doping results to come out, but I also that know things go a little bit quicker at the Olympics.  Does anybody know roughly how long it takes?  Do you remember how many days after competition that Greek 56 (or 62?) tested positive in Athens?

[Matt Foreman]

It usually happens within a few days.  Tara Nott won the silver medal in 2000 and then was moved up to gold when the winner tested positive.  I think she found out that she had been awarded the gold when Haworth was lifting, which would have been in the last women's weight class.  When the Bulgarian scandal happened in 1988, the winners of the 56 and 67.5 classes tested positive, and the whole Bulgarian team pulled out before the 82.5 class competed.  So a matter of days, apparently.