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MONTREAL — The World Anti-Doping Agency has suspended work at the only approved testing laboratory in Africa less than five months before the Paris Olympics. WADA says it took accreditation from the lab in Bloemfontein, South Africa, for up to six months because of faults with a method to detect use of steroids. Samples from Bloemfontein now must be securely transported to another WADA lab. The nearest ones are thousands of kilometers away in Qatar, India and Turkey. Collecting samples from remote athlete training centers and transporting them to distant labs increases the risk they will degrade and be unusable.
