John Boultbee claims the test will be complete at the end of July, then a specially convened panel of scientists will check the test s methodology and the IOC s legal authorities will check it as well. The research was done in 1999. Now we re validating it by extending the research and doing the blood profiling around the world. Already we re using a number of laboratories outside of the Sydney laboratory for that purpose, and we re concerned about having to run the whole thing through an extra laboratory simply because of time. The Australians have drafted a letter of protest to be sent later this week, but the IOC s Dr Rogge seems unlikely to change his mind.
All steps are important.
If one of the steps is missing, it is not considered as being scientifically validated. The chairman of the IOC s coordination commission for the Sydney Olympics, Dr Jacques Rogge.