IAAF using biological passport for doping
MONACO (AP) — The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has started using a biological passport programme to help fight doping in track and field.
The IAAF says the “Athlete Biological Passport” programme is in effect.
The IAAF says “an ambitious and unprecedented blood-testing programme will be conducted at the forthcoming IAAF World Championships in Daegu with the aim of establishing the participants’ full ABP ‘fingerprint’.”
The biological passport programme monitors selected biological markers in athletes, whose abnormal variations could be indicative of doping.
Cycling also uses the passport method to catch cheaters.
