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Drug-testing at Games

Athletes at the sixteenth World Deaf Games will be randomly tested for drug use. Athletes to be tested would be selected before events by the executive of the Committee of the International Silent Sports (CISS).

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Taonga source:
The Press
Reference number:
SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, A1989-030
Bibliographic source:
The Press, 5 January 1989, p.1
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