Vietnamese gymnast fails doping test

Ngan Thuong

… kicked out of the Olympics after testing positive for the diuretic furosemide. …

Ljungqvist said he thought the gymnast’s use of furosemide was inadvertent.

“My interpretation is this was probably the result of poor information given to the athlete, who did not have the knowledge of what to avoid and what she was allowed to take,” he said.

2 more athletes fail doping tests – CBC

What a shame. In 2000, Romania’s Andreea Raducan was stripped of her all-around gold medal because of a positive test for pseudophedrine, a banned substance at the time, that she ingested via cold medication. This sounds similar, though no medal is on the line.

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related: Top gymnast to bid adieu after Olympics

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