Man Charged With Giving Olympic Athletes Performance Drugs

Man Charged With Giving Olympic Athletes Performance Drugs
A tray of samples in the anti-doping laboratory from the London 2012 Games in Harlow, England, on Jan. 19, 2012. Oli Scarff/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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NEW YORK—U.S. prosecutors charged a Texas man on Wednesday with providing performance-enhancing drugs to athletes competing in last summer’s Olympics in Tokyo, including the star Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare.

Eric Lira, 41, of El Paso, is the first person to be charged under a new U.S. anti-doping law governing international sports competitions.