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Raducan emulates great Comanici.

With bright eyes and a captivating smile reminiscent of another Romanian darling, tiny Andreea Raducan captured the Olympic women's all-around gold medal - and the fans hearts too.
Only 1.48 meters (4 foot 10) tall and nine days shy of her 17th birthday, Raducan easily won with 38.893 points, the first Romanian to take the
all-around gold since Nadia Comanici in 1976.
As if that wasn't triumph enough for the Romanian team, which also won the team gold, Simona Amanar and Maria Olaru took the silver and bronze medals. It's the first time a country has swept the all-around since the former Soviet Union did it in 1960.
The only thing marring Raducan's coronation was a controversy over the vault's height. The vault was set 5 cm too low for the first two rotations, and it caused some spectacular crashes.
But Andreea's vault was done on the low equipment so she proved she was the champ in any condition.

Golden girl's positive test rocks gymnastics ranks.

Romania's Olympic gymnastics gold medallist, Andreea Raducan, has tested positive for a banned drug and could be stripped on Tuesday of her women's all-around title in the latest doping bomshell to hit the Sydney Games. IOC officials and Romanian sports chiefs met into the early hours of  Tuesday morning before finally emerging to tell reporters that Raducan had tested positive for a drug banned by the IOC.
IOC medical chief, Prince Alexandre De Merode, said the Olympic body's medical commision was expected to propse that the 16-year-old be stripped of her women's all-round gold medal but be allowed to keep het gold from the teams event, as well as her silver from the vault.
Romanian Olympic Committee president Ioan Tiriac said the substance was in Neurofen, an over-the-counter medicine, that Raducan had taken to treat a cold.
Tiriac said Raducan was shattered by the news. He said he had taken
Neurofen "in probably 10 times more doses" than Raducan had.
"These Neurofen, probably at her size and weight, made this posative test," he said.
Tiriac said the medicine was not performance inhancing and was taken solely as a cold remedy.

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