Somali athletics coach arrested in doping raid in Spain

ByReuters

Published 20/06/2016 at 19:52 GMT

A Somali athletics coach and a Moroccan physiotherapist were arrested on Monday in Sabadell, 20 km north of Barcelona, as part of a doping raid, Catalan police said.

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They were held on suspicion of administering illegal substances to athletes, a police spokesman told Reuters.

Neither the police nor Spain's anti-doping agency would name the two people arrested.

The raid, less than two months before the start of the Rio Olympics, came after months of investigations following a tip off from the Spanish Agency of Health and Sport (AEPSAD).

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Doctors from the sport's governing International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) also carried out doping tests on 27 athletes training in Sabadell, the police said.

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