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...just passing the information on" to the Carabinieri, Olympic officials were well aware that Italy has one of the world's toughest antidoping legislation, including a unique law that makes a single use of banned performance-enhancing substances a felony. Torino also happens to be home to Raffaele Guariniello, Italy's most expert and aggressive prosecutor of alleged doping scofflaws, who was bound to pounce on any hint of an infraction. "You need criminal justice. It gives you investigative means," Guariniello told Time, in his first public comments since the scandal broke. "Sports officials can't do searches, tap phones...
...That was enough to get a green light from Guariniello. So Agovino ordered 20 Carabinieri agents, including two linked to a special Health Ministry squad, to carry out a rapid-fire sweep of five residences where Austrians were staying in Pragelato Plan and Cesana San Sicario, the two hamlets hosting the cross-country and biathlon events. The Saturday-night raid was a first-ever antidoping police blitz at an Olympics, and the i.o.c. came along. So while the police scoured the houses and the athletes for any evidence of doping substances or equipment, Olympic officials demanded that 10 Austrian athletes...
...disease in the U.S., after the legendary baseball star struck down by ALS. The high prevalence of ALS among footballers is the latest distressing news about the health risks of being a pro athlete. Some of those issues are known, and others related to drug use, says Raffaele Guariniello, a Turin prosecutor who has investigated doping in football and cycling. A study of health records of some 24,000 Italian football pros from 1960 to '96 turned up nearly twice the typical rate of liver, pancreatic and colon cancers. Sometimes unwittingly, footballers have used steroids, such as nandrolone, which...
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