体坛英语新闻：Rio anti-doping lab hopes to share China's Games experience

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The coordinator of Brazil's new anti-doping laboratory hopes China can share its Olympic experience as the laboratory is set to be accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) next week.

The Brazilian Doping Control Laboratory (LBCD) was certified to analyze blood for athletes' biological passports by WADA in March and is now close to receiving full accreditation, which would enable it to carry out doping control tests during the Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The laboratory, which is based at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), lost its accreditation in 2013. However, it has since been moved into a new R$134 million (45 million U.S. dollars) building, where staff have been working since August 2014 to ensure full reaccreditation, following a timeline established by WADA.

WADA is due to make a decision on reaccreditation on 13 May in Montreal, Canada. Providing LBCD is reaccredited, it will be able to analyze samples for doping control during the Rio 2016 test events, which start this July.

The Brazilian Federal Government is confident that the country's doping control laboratory will be reaccredited by WADA because "all the stages of auditing, all the tests WADA has successfully done make us confident", according to Ricardo Leyser, executive secretary of the Brazilian ministry.

"I hope we will be able to have a very clean Olympic Games," Francisco Radler de Aquino Neto said on Friday.

"We will be gathering all the knowledge from other Olympic laboratory. We will have more than 100 volunteers from other accredited laboratory accredited by WADA working with us and bringing all the top knowledge of doping control to our Games."

"Our fellow colleagues from China's laboratory are willing to come to help us. Some of our volunteers will come from China with all the experience they have acquired during the Beijing Olympics," he added.

The laboratory will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week, during the Rio Games, with 240 staff. While there is no pre-established number of analyses that will be performed, for the London Games, 5,500 tests were done during the Olympic Games and 1,500 during the Paralympic Games.