Sporting Digest: Athletics

PROFESSOR Arnold Beckett, a former member of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission, has said leading athletes are not being tested properly for drugs. 'The IOC medical commission is failing to ensure that its accreditation of laboratories is in accord with international scientific standards of analytical validation and good laboratory practices or ethics,' Beckett said. 'Athletes are being placed at risk as a consequence of this failure and are seeking help from the courts to receive justice being denied them by the sports authorities.'

GIMNASTICA DE ULIA ROAD RACE (San Sebastian, Sp): Men (10.8km): 1 P Mosima (Ken) 29min 30sec; 2 J Keino (Ken) 29:32; 3 A Pearson (GB) 29:58; 14 E Martin (GB) 30:50. Women (5.3km): 1 H Chepengeno (Ken) 16:47; 2 C Fuentes (Sp) 17:02; 3 C Brunet (Sp) 17:03.