SLOC picks Indiana lab for 2002 Olympics drug testing
Posted: Wednesday January 13, 1999 11:39 AM
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Olympics officials selected an Indiana
University clinic as the drug testing laboratory for the 2002
Winter Games.
The drug lab, accredited by the International Olympic Committee,
was founded in 1983 and performed testing for the 1987 Pan-Am
Games, the 1996 Paralympic Games and the 1998 Goodwill Games.
The lab is under the direction of Larry Bowers, who was deputy
director of drug testing for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.
"We look forward to the collaborative effort with Dr. Bowers
and Indiana University," said Dr. Charles Rich, the chief medical
officer for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee.
Rich headed an eight-member selection panel that selected the
lab. The only other IOC-accredited lab in the United States is at
UCLA.
Dr. Douglas E. Rollins was named SLOC's medical director for
doping control in mid-November. Rollins, who is also the director
of the Center for Human Toxicology at the University of Utah, will
begin working on Jan. 15.
Rollins will consult with Bowers during the development of the
doping control program and laboratory in Salt Lake City. A program
manager for doping control will be added sometime this year.
The Indiana lab tests about 18,000 samples per year and has
helped develop drug testing programs for college athletics and the
National Football League.
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