Washington - The United States congressional committee probing illegal use of steroids in baseball has requested information about testing for performance-enhancing drugs in half a dozen other sports.
The House Government Reform Committee, which summoned top names in baseball to a hearing in March, said it sent letters to the National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Major League Soccer, US Soccer Federation, Association of Tennis Professionals, USA Track & Field and USA Cycling.
The panel requested information from the National Football League about its steroid-testing policies last week.
While the committee did not invite athletes or officials from these sports to another hearing, aides said that they eventually may be called to testify.
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"As the committee has stated publicly numerous times, its focus on the issue of performance-enhancing drug use in sports is not limited to professional baseball," chairperson Tom Davis, a Virginian Republican, and Henry Waxman of California, the panel's top democrat, wrote in a joint letter on Tuesday to sports organisations.
As a result of the March 17 baseball hearing, where Major League Baseball's drug policy was denounced as laced with loopholes, law makers have said they may draft legislation calling for a national steroid testing policy.
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