CANBERRA: Australia's anti-doping agency has abandoned its heavily criticized plan to examine private medical records of Olympics-bound athletes after discovering it is not legal.
The Australian Anti-Doping Authority announced in March it would check the federal government's Medicare program prescription records to see if athletes in contention for the Beijing Olympics had been taking banned substances.
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