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?
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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.
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