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Thu 11 Nov 2009Spanish police arrest 11 in doping raids
ATHLETICS:ATHLETICS IRELAND have said they’ll be watching developments following yesterday’s news that Spanish police had reportedly uncovered doping agents in the home of Spanish race walker Francisco Fernandez during raids that led to 11 people being detained.
An Athletics Ireland spokesman declined to comment in any great detail on the news, except to state that they would be “continuously watching developments”, and that Irish race walker Robert Heffernan – a long-time training partner of Fernandez – was “quite distraught” with the revelations, which had caught him completely unaware.
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