Antidoping summit could bring blood 'passports'

The summit on doping in cycling scheduled to take place in Paris on October 22-23 could result in the use of a 'blood passport' as a way of tracking and catching cheaters. The method of measuring blood values over time to find suspicious changes could be in place in time for the 2008 Tour de France.

World Antidoping Agency (WADA) president Dick Pound and his vice-president Jean-François Lamour, will address the issue at the summit organised by the French ministry of Health, Youth and the Sports. "It is the principal topic which we approached with [French minister] Roselyne Bachelot," Pound explained to AFP.

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