| Australia: Aussie athletes suspected of drug use
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A SECRET list of almost 900 Australian athletes suspected of using banned substances was the motivation for a controversial attempt to gain access to their private medical records. New documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws by The Australian reveal the extent of the project by the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
ASADA was secretly planning to search through the records before being informed earlier this year by the Australian Solicitor General that, contrary to initial advice, it did not have legal authority to conduct the pilot program.
In September last year, ASADA provided Medicare with a list of 878 athletes and 18 support personnel, including doctors, pharmacists, trainers and coaches.
Another doctor was added to the list in January.
The authority asked that the athletes' prescription records for the past five years be cross referenced with the official list of banned substances.
ASADA had told Medicare of its concerns that some doctors were "becoming known as the go-to person" for performance-enhancing drugs.
An ASADA spokesman was not immediately able to elaborate on the fate of the 897 suspects, whose identities remain secret.
The Australian has been unable to determine if they include any Olympians.
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