IOC tests Austrians for drugs

THE IOC’s war against doping reached new levels when IOC drug busters and Italian police raided the private quarters of the Austrian biathlon team late Saturday.

Ten athletes, six cross-country competitors and four biathletes were tested and the results will be known within 48 hours, Arne Ljunqvist, head of the IOC’s medical commission, announced yesterday.

Italian police were looking for doping equipment and also for disgraced Austrian coach Walter Mayer, who has been banned from the Olympics up to and including Vancouver 2010.