Accusations of drug use continued later in the year, this time from German captain Chris-Carol Bremer, who stated that Thorpe's "hands and feet are unusually big" due to the use of human growth hormone. Thorpe denied the claims and called for the introduction of blood testing, promising to have a sample frozen to prove his innocence upon the discovery of such a test. Although a test for EPO was developed in time for the games, no positive test for hGh was found.