Brazil’s failure to have an accredited laboratory ready in time for the FIFA World Cup "means a player who doped may be able to continue competing because the testing wouldn’t be done before his next game," according to Tariq Panja of BLOOMBERG. FIFA Medical Committee Chair Michel D’Hooghe said that the process of collecting the samples and sending them by plane to Switzerland "also substantially increases the costs for World Cup organizers." D'Hooghe: “Until now, we always had a chance before the next game. That means if a player fails the test, we suspend him. We will manage to do it before most games, but I’m not sure we will do it in all conditions.” FIFA "will test everyone on the 23-player rosters of the 32 competing teams before the tournament begins, and will choose two players from each side at random following every one of the tournament’s 64 games." There "will be close to 1,000 doping controls related to the World Cup, and they will be cross-referenced against players’ biological profile data FIFA has" (BLOOMBERG, 6/3).
