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In early February De Bruin's legal team was optimistic she may have a chance following revelations by a doctor in England that the containers used to transport athletes' urine samples can be opened and closed without detection. Dr David Brown, a chemist acting for banned British athlete Paul Edwards, showed that the Versapak containers, similar to the ones used in the transportation of the triple Olympic gold medallist's sample, can be opened and closed, without detection, by immersion in boiling water. Versapak subsequently acknowledged that the opening of that type of Versapak container, now out of circulation, had been widely known since 1997. Why FINA's testing company, the Swedish-based International Drug Tests and Management, was still using such containers, is yet to be cleared up. Dr Brown has apparently recorded the procedure for use in the appeal hearing.