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Dope testing at NFL matches

June 11, 2003 22:21 IST

The All India Football Federation has decided to introduce compulsory dope testing in all matches of the National Football League this year.

"A decision has been taken to call one player from each side to undergo a dope test in all the NFL matches from this year," Dr Vaes Paes, chairman of the Sports Medicine program of the AIFF, said in Kolkata on Wednesday.

In the other domestic tournaments, he said, the AIFF would conduct random testing of the players to detect any possible use of performance enhancing substances.

Paes, who was coordinating the first-ever sports medicine program of the AIFF at the SAI campus, said all the participating players were today administered tetanus and hepatitis B vaccines.

The program, which began on June 8, will conclude tomorrow.


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