Algerian soccer doctor supports calls for investigation of doping allegations
Secretly doped?
By James M. Dorsey
One of the Algerian national soccer team’s doctors in the 1980s has supported allegations that the squad may have been secretly doped in the 1980s to enhance performance at two World Cups in a bid to distract attention from mounting domestic discontent with the government.
Dr. Rachid Hanifi, speaking to Algeria’s El Wata…
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