« on: June 04, 2008, 09:18:52 AM »
OSLO, June 3, 2008 - Golden League track and field organisers in Europe are not prepared to pay any kind of prize money until the athletes have shown a confirmed negative doping test. And that procedure could last at least a month.
That is how the organisers are ensuring that the money will end up in the right pockets.
“We recommend that everybody follow our advice,” says Euromeetings president, Rajne Søderberg of Sweden.
The organisers of the Golden League have experienced that even this kind of fast action could not be safe enough to ensure their money.
The former Olympic and Worlds winner Justin Gatlin (26) ran more competitions after he tested positive in a Kansas event two years ago. Three months later he confessed the scandal himself. The organisers had already paid out millions but were not able to get their money back.
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