Athens vows toughest anti-doping fight in 2004 Games

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Athens vows toughest anti-doping fight in 2004 Games

Athens 2004 Olympics organizers (ATHOC) pledged on Friday to host a drug-free Games by carrying out the toughest tests.

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Athens 2004 Olympics organizers (ATHOC) pledged on Friday to host a drug-free Games by carrying out the toughest tests.

"We are the first ones to want clean Games," ATHOC chief Gianna Angelopoulos told reporters. "We are the ones who want our Games to shine, we have done everything possible in preparing for anti-doping.

"We will strictly follow the rules of the International OlympicCommittee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency."

IOC chief inspector Denis Oswald, who is here to monitor preparation for the Games, also expressed the IOC's resolution to wipe out any offenders.

"We will use the best technology to trace the drugs," Oswald told a press conference after a three-day tour of 2004 Athens Games venues.

Four anonymous U.S. athletes and Britain's European champion sprinter Dwain Chambers are confirmed as having given positive 'A'sample urine tests for the previously unknown steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG).

US, British, German and Greek sports authorities have started retesting thousands of samples dating back months to try to identify the extent of the performance-enhancing drug's use.

"Science is making progress and the gap between the cheats and science is getting very narrow...we will make every, every, effortto test the athletes and to make sure the cheaters will not take part in the Games," said Oswald.

"We will make every effort and have the best possible equipmentin Athens to have the confidence the Games will be clean," he added.

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