WADA 'greatly concerned' by leak of swimmer Thorpe's irregular dope test

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2007

MONTREAL (AFP) — The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Monday expressed "great concern and disappointment" at the leaking to the media of details about champion swimmer Ian Thorpe's irregular drug test result.

WADA called the leak a "serious breach of confidentiality".

"WADA is especially shocked that the name of an athlete was apparently given to the media while no adverse analytical finding has been determined at this point," the agency said in a statement.

Thorpe, who began representing Australia when he was 14 and went on to win five Olympic gold medals in freestyle and relay events for his country, was named by French sports newspaper L'Equipe as having returned a drug test with abnormal levels of testosterone and luteinising hormone last May.

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