World doping watchdog shuts down Rio Olympic laboratory

June 25, 2016 00:50

Just weeks before the Olympic Games open in Rio de Janeiro, the city's accredited anti-doping laboratory has been stopped from conducting tests.

The World Anti-Doping Agency said on Friday it has suspended the lab's accreditation due to "non-conformity with the International Standard for Laboratories."

The suspension is an embarrassment to Brazil and Rio so close to the Summer Games, which open August 5 after months of political turmoil and financial crisis for federal, state and city authorities.

The failings of the Rio laboratory, known as Ladetec, have previously been exposed by WADA suspending its accreditation in 2012, after a false positive test result, and revoking its status in 2013.

Rio risks being without a hometown lab during the Olympics two years it was shut down during the 2014 World Cup.

No details of the laboratory's latest problems were specified.

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