Mexico City, July 24: The international soccer federation (Fifa) yesterday rejected the results of anti-doping tests of two Mexican football players and said it would impose sanctions on the South American Soccer Confederation (Conmebol) that suspended them for six months.Fifa President Joseph Blatter said the association rejected the results because they were not done in a laboratory approved by Fifa and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The two players, Raul Rodrigo Lara and Pablo Cesar Chavez, who were banned during the recent Copa America, were allowed to play in the Confederations Blatter said Conmebol knew that only officially approved laboratories could conduct the tests.
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