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Leading agents refuse to represent 'serious dopers' - Athletics, More Sports - Independent.co.uk

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ryanwestman   Feb 18th 2008, 7:44pm
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By Mike Rowbottom
Saturday, 16 February 2008

The hardening stance taken recently against doping by meeting promoters is being mirrored by a similar resolve among agents, according to a leading athletes' representative.

Speaking on the eve of today's Grand Prix in Birmingham, from which Dwain Chambers, making a controversial second return to the sport after testing positive for the banned steroid THG, is excluded, Mark Wetmore confirmed that 30 leading agents have agreed not to represent athletes who have served serious doping bans.

"We are all members of the Association of Athletics Managers, and we have unanimously decided that we will no longer represent athletes who have served bans for two years or more," said the US-based Wetmore, whose clients include the world 100m champion Tyson Gay, the world 110m hurdles record-holder Liu Xiang and the leading Ethiopian distance runners Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba.

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