i looked in the archive and found this post from 26 Nvember:

The Electronic Telegraph
Tuesday 27 November 2001
Tom Knight




UP TO 35 athletes may not receive the prize money they have won this year
because they had not undergone the requisite number of drug tests.

According to the rules of the International Association of Athletics
Federations, athletes can collect their winnings only if they had two out of
competition drug tests in the previous 12 months.

Problems occur when athletes, their managers or federations fail to provide
the IAAF with the necessary information on their whereabouts.

At the World Championships in Edmonton, Germany feared they might have to
compensate Ingo Schultz, the 26-year-old who came from nowhere to win the
silver medal and $30,000 (�21,000) in the 400 metres.

Schultz had not been considered good enough to be included in Germany's
drug-testing programme for elite athletes. However, athletes who are not
included in a target group need only to have been tested once.

Arne Ljundqvist, the head of the IAAF's anti-doping commission, said: "We
have something like 460 athletes who should be paid prize money from the
major championships, but between 20 and 35 will probably not because they
have not given us the necessary information."

Eamonn Condon
www.RunnersGoal.com



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