MONACO: Athletes from Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Portugal will face more stringent out-of-competition (OOC) testing to be eligible for the Paris Olympics as their national testing programmes are not sufficient, the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) said on Monday.

The decision comes after the World Athletics Council approved the recommendations from the AIU board to impose “tougher testing requirements on those federations” before the Olympics begin on July 26.

“The four federations received clear warnings from the AIU about the insufficiency of their nati­onal testing programmes after the World Athletics Championships 2022 in Eugene,” the AIU said in a statement.

Published in Dawn, March 12th, 2024