Doping control analysis: The 6th World Championships of Athletics, Athens,Greece

The first official report on the organization, analytical methodologies, an d the results of the doping control analysis performed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)-accredited Doping Control Laboratory of Athens, Gr eece, during the 6th World Championships of Athletics, held in Athens on 1- 10 August 1997, is presented, The significance of the various analytical pa rameters of the doping control is shown. The results include 20 positive ca ses, of which two were detected in screening procedures and confirmed exclu sively by high resolution mass spectrometry, The screening results and anal ytical data on the excretion of a new black-market doping agent, phenylpira cetam or carfedon, which was unknown in the literature, are also presented. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.