The money behind drug testing for Olympians
We’ve heard about the cost of the Olympics by now from all kinds of angles: what it means for the city of London… For the athletes….
But there’s one cost of the games you might not have considered: the price for keeping athletes honest and drug free.
Even before the games have begun, the AP is reporting that over 100 athletes have already been kept out of the London Olympics because of doping suspensions.
Shirley Wang has been covering the games for the Wall Street Journal, and she joins us now in today’s Mid-day Extra.
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