ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) " Four days after shutting down work at the Olympic drug test laboratory in Rio de Janeiro, the World Anti-Doping Agency said it has suspended another lab, this time in Kazakhstan. WADA did not say how exactly the Almaty lab failed to pass such an assessment. The Almaty lab reportedly opened in 2003 and is one of the lesser-known of the 35 labs approved worldwide by WADA. As well as announcing a suspension for the Rio lab also last Friday, a move which plunged Olympic drug testing into uncertainty, WADA has also suspended labs in China, Spain, South Africa, and Portugal this year. WADA said on Tuesday that the lab in Almaty had its accreditation suspended from last Friday for four months as "a direct result of the more stringent quality assessment procedures enacted by WADA."

Source: New Zealand Herald June 28, 2016 14:15 UTC