The 300 doping test results reported to be missing by a group of independent observers have now been accounted for. The International Olympic Committee said they have the said results all along and assured the public and the World Anti-Doping Agency that all were negative for anabolic steroids and other prohibited compounds.

It was last week that the independent observers furnished WADA their final report which included their discovery of missing test results. The 10-man team was appointed by WADA to review Beijing drug-testing program.

“Once the laboratory had apparently delivered all reports to the IO (independent observer) team, it transpired that around 300 test results were missing in comparison to the doping control forms,” the WADA report said.

The incident had put the Beijing testing program under cloud of suspicion. But the IOC took immediate steps to clear things up.

“Regarding the ‘300 missing tests,’ it is our understanding that there has been a communication problem between the Beijing laboratory and the IO team on the results of a number of tests,” IOC spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau said in an e-mail. “The results of these tests were communicated to the IOC by the end of August. All were negative. The results have now been transmitted to the IO team.”

The team said it checked with the IOC’s medical commission regarding the test results’ status and, apparently, the IOC was unable to finish the processing of the lab results in time for the independent observers’ report completion last month.

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