With the times she'd been running this season, Dutch athlete Madiea Ghafoor could have earned a trip to the World Championships in Doha next month as part of her country's 400-meter relay team. Instead, she is in a German jail awaiting trial on drug trafficking charges.
Another promising Dutch sprinter, 21-year-old Roelf Bouwmeester, also won't be competing any time soon after Hungarian police arrested him earlier this month at a music festival and accused him of drug dealing.
Ad Roskam, technical director of the Dutch track and field association, said Thursday the sport's administrators are in shock at the recent arrests.
Roskam says, "We still have no reason to believe it is anything else than coincidence that we have two cases now, as if one is not shocking enough."
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