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Now for the rumours behind the news. The necessity of drug testing is giving rise to some outrageous stories, as we've seen in the past few months. The followup to the Denis Pankratov scandal at the 1996 Paris World Cup will go down in the growing annals of doping bloopers. While the Technical Director of the FFN was unreachable for comment, another source said the problem appeared to be one of procedure, which is equivalent to negligence in this case. While the mandate of the doctor is completely independent of the meet organization, there was apparently no liaison between the FFN, who should have been aware of the new FINA rule for ratification of a world record, and the said doctor, who chose to do his own random testing.