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Updated at 5:48 a.m., Saturday, April 19, 2008

Track and field: No positive tests at world indoors, IAAF says

Associated Press

MONTE CARLO, Monaco — No positive doping tests were reported at the world indoor championships, track and field's governing body said today.

The IAAF carried out 127 tests at the three-day meet last month in Valencia, Spain _ including 67 for the performance enhancing blood-booster EPO.

Also, 81 blood screenings were taken in Valencia to help the IAAF monitor and target-test athletes.

"The results of the blood screens are added to other samples taken both pre-competition and out-of-competition over the past years, to form an individual profile for each athlete," the IAAF said in a statement on its Web site.