Positive A sample - report

ByEurosport

Published 25/11/2003 at 09:34 GMT

Dwain Chambers was indeed one of two athletes to test positive for the new designer steroid THG at last August's World Championships in Paris, according to French newspaper l'Equipe. The paper reports that American shotputter Kevin Toth was the other athl

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Toth, 35, had previously tested positive in a re-testing of samples from the U.S. nationals while Chambers, the 25-year old European 100m champion was caught based on a sample from an August 1st training session in Sarrebrücken, Germany.

Both athletes train in California near the San Francisco Bay area labratory BALCO that produced THG. The uncovering of the substance has rocked the sporting world and triggered the re-testing of all samples from the Paris worlds.

Britain could now be stripped of silver in the men's 4x100m which would instead go to Brazil, thereby enabling the Netherlands to earn bronze.

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