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Before the opening of the 2008 Olympics in China, seven Russian female athletes were disqualified from the Games after they were ruled to have switched urine samples before tests for performance-enhancing drugs.

The problem of performance-enhancing drugs was raised at the state level by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin last February, who urged tougher penalties for those athletes using drugs and proposed establishing a state doping control system.

MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti)



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