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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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