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Cuban
Baseball Players are Drug Free
Dr. Mario Granda, director of
Havana's Anti-Doping Lab, said
three random tests of all 30
members of Cuba's baseball team
to the World Championships were
negative.
Granda, also director of Cuba's
Sports Medicine Institute, told
Granma daily that nationals get
due punishment if found cheating
at events sponsored by the
Federation or IOC.
Cuba's lab is among 33 the
International Olympic Committee
approved worldwide. Its 2005
national program ran 1,800 tests
and plans to run another 1,500
in 2006.
Cuba's team will travel Monday
to Puerto Rico, to play the
locals, Panama and Holland, at
an event sponsored by the
International Baseball
Federation.
The IBF plans to test two
players per team at the end of
each match, but 80 will take
pre-tournament probes. Anyone
testing positive will be
suspended from international
events for two years.
Cuba will attend the
Pan-American Congress of Sports
Medicine in Cartagena, Colombia,
March 8-10.
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