A full doping control will be carried out during the 7th Obudu international mountain race and the 3rd African Nations mountain running champioships which hold on the 28 of this month at the Obudu Ranch Resort.

This was revealed yesterday by the Honourable Commissioner for Information in Cross River state,Patrick Ugbe who is also the media chief for the race.

Ugbe told newsmen in Calabar that the Local Organising Committee has made provision for a full doping control for the event which has become one of the most anticipated events in the calendar of the world mountain running association.

’The LOC will cooperate with Femi Ayorinde,the only recognised World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) official in Nigeria who is likely to conduct the exercise.This is an annual ritual carried out at the race because of its status.The Obudu mountain race has the largest total prize-money available of any mountain race and is known as “the world’s richest mountain race”.So we have to conform with international practice that random,in-competition doping control must be carried out’’,revealed Ugbe.

Ugbe further revealed that the tests that will be carried out will include the use of prohibited substances like all anabolic agents which includes but not limited to stanozolol, tetrahydrogestrinone, methandienone, testosterone and prostanozol as well as some growth hormones.