Athletics: Medallists not among drug cheats

SEVERAL athletes who competed in this year's world championships in Paris have tested positive for the new designer steroid THG, an IAAF spokesman confirmed yesterday.

However authorities are relieved that tests for the designer steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG) are unlikely to expose any medal winners as drugs cheats.

Re-testing on 400 urine samples taken during the Paris championships is not yet complete but with about 75 percent of the results now in, “a very small number” had tested positive for tetrahydrogestrinone, or THG, according to IAAF spokesman Nick Davies.