French runner's B-test positive

Hind Dehiba's B-sample showed the French 1,500 metres record holder tested positive for EPO, sports daily L'Equipe reported. Dehiba was arrested in January after vials containing human growth hormone were found in her luggage. After her arrest the...

Hind Dehiba's B-sample showed the French 1,500 metres record holder tested positive for EPO, sports daily L'Equipe reported. Dehiba was arrested in January after vials containing human growth hormone were found in her luggage.

After her arrest the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) said she would be tested and traces of the banned blood-boosting drug erythropoietin were found in an A-sample from the athlete tested by a laboratory outside Paris.

The 27-year-old Dehiba, her husband and coach and a third athlete whose identity was not revealed were arrested at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris after returning from a training session in the United States.

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