Three Additional North Korean Soccer Players Fail Drug Tests at World Cup

[RandySF]

hree more North Korean soccer players failed anti-doping tests given to the whole squad after two teammates failed a test earlier this month at the Women’s World Cup.

FIFA didn’t name the players or the substance in a statement today. All North Korean players were tested after Song Jong Sun and Jong Pok Sim were provisionally suspended July 7 before a game against Colombia in Bochum. The two had been tested after the team’s previous matches and the results received yesterday morning.

North Korea failed to advance out of the group stage of the tournament in Germany.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-16/three-additional-north-korean-soccer-players-fail-drug-tests-at-world-cup.html