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Steroid profiling added to UEFA anti-doping program

Xinhua, March 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

Steroid profiling of players will be added to the UEFA anti-doping program next season, the European soccer governing body announced on Friday.

UEFA's medical committee has approved urine analysis in addition to existing blood monitoring for its biological passport program.

In 2013, UEFA approved retrospectively analyzing urine samples from 900 players to decide if steroid profiling was required. Re-testing was anonymous and positive samples would not provoke anti-doping cases.

Though top-level soccer has few doping cases, UEFA suspended three Russian players from CSKA Moscow in the 2009-10 season for doping violations. Endi