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[Dan]

This could be pretty big news:

http://www.runblogrun.com/2008/07/soboleva_tomashova_five_others.html

Very notable names and a new wrinkle to drug testing...

Dan
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[AM_Runner]

Its huge and not sure if you heard they added Yegorova as well to the mix - remember Radcliffe "Drug Cheats Out" in 2003 I think...
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[Dan]

Yeah, I saw her name in there. Not a big surprise.

Dan
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[AM_Runner]

Nope I was just saying thta she wasnt in the original story and came out later... I was kind of surprised on Tomashova but not that surprised
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[Dan]

Ah. I could've sworn Yegorova was in the original report I read, so maybe I read a secondary version.

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[AM_Runner]

summary of the intital report was here

The 6 suspended include Yelena Soboleva, who had dominated the mid-d ranks in 2008 with 1:54.85 and 3:57.71 world leaders (the 3:57.71 was also a world indoor record) and double (2003 and 2005) 1,500m World Champ Tatyana Tomashova. Also suspended are Yuliya Fomenko (3:59.41 for 2nd at World Indoors this year, 2nd at the Russian Olympic Trials), European discus champ Darya Pishchalnikova, former world record holder in the hammer Gulfiya Khanafeyeva and distance runner Svetlana Cherkasova.

Yegorova was added later
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