Sydney was a disaster in many ways.
Andreea Raducan was the legitimate 2000 Olympic Gymnastics Champion.
… but was disqualified and stripped of her gold medal shortly after the competition concluded, when it was revealed that she had failed doping controls, testing positive for pseudophedrine, at the time a banned substance. She and her coaches maintained that she had been given the substance in two cold medicine pills by a Romanian team physician, and that they had not impacted her performance in any way. …
Does she look like a drug cheat to you?
Everyone. I mean everyone agreed that this was a gross injustice.
… Her case was brought to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the fall of 2000. Raducan herself was exonerated of any personal wrongdoing by the CAS, the Romanian Olympic Committee and the International Gymnastics Federation, and was not subject to any disciplinary measures. However, her medal was not reinstated, and the team doctor who administered the Nurofen was banned for two Olympic cycles. …
That drug Pseudoephedrine was, in fact, removed from the banned list in 2004, Raducan seemingly vindicated.
Well … it’s back on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned list as of Jan. 1, 2010.
Once again, athletes who are subject to testing in competition need be very careful before taking cold medicines like:
Sudafed
Actifed
Contac
Claritin-D
Cirrus
Some of them no longer contain pseudoephedrine and have phenylephrine (not on the list) instead.
Andreea
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I still feel outrage when reminded of Raducan’s stripped medal. What a world.
I don’t really understand why cold medicine is banned… Is it banned because it can mask other drugs? or is there some other reason?
Andreea’s coaches tried to cheat and she got caught. Others had head colds and couldn’t take medication and to sday it didn’t help her is wrong. If you have had a cold and taken medication is does help clear your head and it did indeed help Andreea and her teammates who also took it but because of size did not test positive.
I feel bad for Andreea and I personally feel cold medication should be allowed but that whole AA should be talked about more for the vault height then the medication issue and this is coming from a real Khorkina hater. I couldn’t stand her and feel she was gifted a lot in her career.
Her coaches really tried to cheat? Seriously? Do you know what that stuff does to you when you’re a gymnast? What kind of advantage were they trying to give her, anyways? Would seem more like a challenge than a leg-up on the competition.
The most beautiful gymnast of romania! I love her! and it was a really injustice! =(
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