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COLOGNE, Germany

A German laboratory says it has developed a system to catch athletes who switch or tamper with urine samples during drug tests. And top doping institutions in that country are calling the development promising.

The system would end the need for athletes to be supervised when producing a specimen.

Here‘s how they say it works. A marker is put in a liquid given to athletes to drink about 30 minutes before a test. When the sample is analyzed, it shows if the marker is missing.

The marking system has been tested for fi ve years at drug treatment centers and for the past year in German prisons, but Germany‘s antidoping agency says it needs “more evaluation” before employing the system.

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