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The International Olympic Committee has revealed it will retest 5,000 doping samples from the Beijing Games to check for traces of a new blood-booster drug.
The IOC said its doping lab in Switzerland would be specifically testing for Cera, an advanced version of endurance-enhancing hormone EPO.
The decision comes after French officials detected Cera during retesting of Tour de France samples.
However, it is thought the retests will cover all sports, not just cycling.
The IOC's announcement comes 48 hours after reanalysed samples from the Tour de France using the new technology unearthed two drug cheats - Germany's Stefan Schumacher, a double stage winner on this year's race, and Italian Leonardo Piepoli.
The original urine tests had raised suspicions but proved inconclusive.
"The IOC have a policy that allows them to go back up to eight years to retest a sample, but this is the first time they've done so on this scale," BBC sports news correspondent Gordon Farquhar said.
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We should now have a new sport... "spot the drugs cheat" or even just simply "how many medals will be lost after the Olympics".
I watched and enjoyed the Olympics this summer but I also have to confess that I was also waiting to see when medals would start being taken away.
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