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"After the recent positive tests of Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, and Sherone Simpson, IOC vice president Thomas Bach has find a reason to look at the bright side of the latest doping scandals to jolt track and field. IOC vice president Thomas Bach, who leads the committee's investigations into Olympic doping cases, said the latest news is "disappointing and encouraging at the same time.""

"LONDON (AP) -- The IOC is using an improved steroid test to reanalyze frozen doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and may use the same method to conduct retests from the 2008 Beijing Games."

"The IOC and IAAF are looking at the bright side of the latest doping scandals to jolt track and field. The world bodies said though the positive tests that nabbed top-name sprinters Tyson Gay, Asafa Powell, and Sherone Simpson are disappointing but they have shown proof that global drug-testing efforts are working."

"Samples stored from the 2006 Torino winter Olympics are being retested by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the eight-year statute of limitations runs out next year and as two labs find hundreds of unrelated positive tests."

"IOC Vice-President Sir Craig Reedie has taken over as the new President of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) with effect from 1 January 2014."