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DATE: FRIDAY, September 3, 1993                   TAG: 9309030133
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B9   EDITION: METRO 
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DARLINGTON CUTS SPRING RACE TO 400 MILES

Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, the site of two 500-mile NASCAR Winston Cup races each year since 1972, will cut its spring race to 400 miles.

Track president Jim Hunter said Darlington will hold the revamped TranSouth 400 on March 27, 1994. Darlington Raceway ran 400-mile events each spring from 1966 to 1972 until expanding to 500 miles.

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In Stockholm, Sweden, tests showed that the banned hormone erythropoietin, previously undetectable, could be traced up to 48 hours after it is injected by an athlete, a Swedish sports medicine scientist said. Bjorn Ekblom, a professor at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, called it "a big breakthrough in the battle against doping in sports."

Keywords:
AUTO RACING 


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