Hugh Robertson was present during the inauguration of the lab.
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"We're doing what we can to ensure that there will be no place to hide from the use of substances in 2012. Our message to any athlete who is thinking of doping is simple: we will discover it," said the Minister of Sport and Olympics Hugh Robertson, who described the lab as "the resistance front against doping."
Endorsed by the National Anti-Doping Agency, the laboratory is located in Harlow, Essex a government district in the metropolitan region of London. There, during the Games, will be administered a record number of tests: 6250 samples with an average of 400 per day. For that, it will work for 24 hours, seven days a week.
Paul Deighton, chief executive of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, praised the lab, working in partnership with pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and whose operations will be commanded by technicians from King's College London, the investigative arm of the University of London. "At present the laboratory, we recognize the importance of a solid evidence," he said.
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