ATHLETICS: European records to get to be reviewed

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The track and field record book in Europe is being reviewed to see if it can still be believed to be clean of doping. European Athletics said yesterday it has created “a task force to examine the credibility of European records.”

Current records include several set in the 1980s by athletes from Soviet Bloc countries, including East Germany. Some times in women’s track events still stand as world records.

European Athletics president Svein Arne Hansen said records should be 100 percent credible. “However, there is a view that this is currently not the case with some of the performances on the European record list,” the Norwegian official said in a statement.