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Drugs in sport

Saturday 01 March 1997 00:02 GMT
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Drugs in sport

A doping control expert at the Russian Olympic Committee lost an eye when he was severely beaten in an attack his colleagues said could be linked to his anti-drugs work. Yuri Vdovin has partial amnesia after the incident on a Moscow street. Collegues said Vdovin had doping samples with him when he was attacked.

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