German TV Assures that ICO Hid Jamaican Athletes' Doping

Germany's public television station ARD assured on Sunday that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) hid and stopped investigating cases of doping by Jamaican athletes.

According to the TV station, some B tests that were apparently positive for clenbuterol and were taken during the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 were considered negative although the banned substance had been found.

The program 'Sportschau' reported that it had received the information in the autumn of 2016 from IOC sources.

In that regard, the international sports body made it clear that those cases of minimal values of clenbuterol had been shelved following regulations from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WAA) 'to protect innocent athletes.

Clenbuterol is a bronchodilator that has notable anabolic effects, so it is one of the substances banned in sports.

In December 2014, ARD denounced a big doping scandal in Russian sport that resulted in an in-depth investigation by the WAA and sanctions on that country's athletes.