Austrian athletes throw squirts out of window
Police of Turin has found used medical belongings during a night search at Austrian sportsmen. According to policemen, when the action began, one of the sportsmen threw some medical belongings out of the window. “We found used and not used medical belongings, among them squirts,” informs a source in the Italian police.
Earlier, Austrian NOC protested against the night search, conducted in houses of biathlon and skiing teams by Italian policemen and NOC anti-doping committee, informs Polit.ru.
As REGNUM reported, on February 16, both doping-test of Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva proved to be positive regarding forbidden phenotropil (carphedon) medicine after individual 15 km race. Pyleva was pulled out of following competitions. She may be prosecuted in Italy.
12:23 02/20/2006
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