Sochi 2014 will have 2,500 drug tests conducted

Sochi 2014 will conduct 2,500 drug tests. (AP/Misha Japardize)

MOSCOW — Sochi’s anti-doping director says 2,500 drug tests will be conducted at next year’s Winter Olympics, about 350 more than at the 2010 Games in Vancouver.

Alexei Slautin, head of Sochi’s anti-doping section, said in a statement Thursday on the Russian Sports Ministry’s website that another 600 tests are planned for the Paralympics.

The World Anti-Doping Agency says 2,149 tests were conducted at the previous winter games in Vancouver.

In all, the Sochi Games will have 13 doping control stations — 10 at competition sites and three in the athletes villages.

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