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There’s nowhere to hide for drug cheats, warns IOC chief

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Gene testing could be introduced in time for next year’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach announced.

It could be accompanied by dried blood spot testing (DBS), another significant new weapon in the war against drug cheats, Bach told the opening session of the fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport organised by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) here.

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