Australia investigates reported drug find

MELBOURNE, Mar 15 (Reuters) Suspicious materials found at the Australian Institute of Sport have been sent to drug laboratories for examination, an Australian Sports Commission spokesman said today.

Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) radio reported as the 18th Commonwealth Games were being opened in Melbourne that syringes and vials with traces of an unidentified substance had been found by a cleaner at the AIS in Canberra yesterday.

The report said they were found in an athlete's room.

The ASC said something had been found but would not confirm the details of the ABC report.

''Some materials have been found and have been sent to be examined,'' the commission spokesman said.

The spokesman said he believed the tests could be carried out at the Australian Government Analytical Laboratories in Sydney.

''We would obviously expect results fairly quickly,'' he said.

The AIS is a world-renowned training base used by athletes from around the world as well as from Australia.

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