adminPARIS – Players will undergo blood tests next season as part of Uefa’s new anti-doping detection regime in all competitions run by European soccer’s governing body. Until now Uefa has only conducted blood tests at international tournaments – Euro 2008 and 2012. From this month the detection regime is to be extended to the Champions League and Europa League. Checks will be made in and out of competition and players may be asked at doping controls to give urine samples, blood samples or both.
However, Uefa said on its website that out-of-competition checks would only be carried out if players or teams had not informed testers where they would be when required to be tested.-Sport24.
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