With over 150 days till the London 2012 Olympic Games, Minister for Sport Mark Arbib announced that the Australian Olympic and Paralympic teams will face the most comprehensive anti-doping program ever put together by Australian authorities at a major sporting event.
Minister Arbib stated that the Government through the Australian Sports Anti-doping Authority (ASADA) would invest more than $1 million in the word-class Pure Performance program to conduct more than 1000 blood and urine tests across Olympic and Paralympic athletes in the lead up to London.
Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) President John Coates AC said ASADA’s Pure Performance Program had the AOC’S full backing
Australian Paralympic Committee (APC) President Greg Hartung commented that considering the APC is sending the largest ever sent by the APC to a Paralympic Games overseas it was only fitting that they be provided with Australia’s largest ever anti-doping program.