Expect surprises in Torino

World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound warns athletes at the Winter Olympics to expect tests for new banned drugs, the sort that caught out German-born Spanish cross-country skier Johann Muehlegg at the 2002 Games as well as Russians Larissa Lazutin

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"I hope there is a strong possibility of it and I hope that they will be as disagreeably surprised as were the two Russians and Muehlegg were in 2002," Pound told reporters from WADA's headquarters in Montreal on Tuesday.

Muehlegg was stripped of his 50km gold and suspended for two years when he was found to have taken the hitherto undetectable performance-enhancing drug darbepoetin. Lazutina and Danilova lost gold and silver in the women's 30km race.

Pound was asked if a test would be ready in time for Turin for the illicit drug HTH, which promotes stamina and muscular density.

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"All I can say is that we are working on it. It is a priority for us, and whether we would announce before the games or not is something that we would have to decide."

Pound added that it was a question of balancing "prevention against the publicity that would arise on an occasion like the Olympic Games."

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