31.   However, they have recently acknowledged that some coaches, doctors or other officials could be involved in the doping cases.

32.   Hundreds of Olympic athletes have been tested for banned substances but there had been no confirmed doping cases until now.

33.   If there is a doping case, we will announce it.

34.   However, many in the country feel strongly that the number should have been higher because of doping cases.

35.   In another doping case, the IAAF said it would go ahead Monday with the hearing for Italian high jumper Antonella Bevilacqua.

36.   If rumors were confirmed, it would be the third doping case at the regional Olympics in four days.

37.   In October, in another case, an Italian appeals court acquitted Pantani in a doping case.

38.   It also asked the Latvian Olympic committee and bobsled authorities to explain their actions, and launched a study into the role team doctors played in the doping case.

39.   It has been involved in hundreds of recent doping cases.

40.   IOC vice president Dick Pound of Canada said it would be a mistake to reopen suspected doping cases of the past.