In a message dated Tue, 12 Sep 2000 7:43:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, "Paul V.
Tucknott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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Bulgarian fails Olympic drugs test
Concerns over drug abuse threaten to mar the games
Bulgarian athlete Iva Prandjeva has tested positive for the banned drug
nandrolone on the eve of the Olympic Games.
Prandjeva was set to compete in Sydney in the long and triple jumps.
Traces of the anabolic steroid have been found in a test at the London Grand
Prix meeting on August 5. A B test is scheduled for September 20, after the
games have started.
"If the B test confirms the first we will put her case to the arbitration
committee of the IAAF [athletics' international governing body]," said
Dobromir Karamarinov, general secretary of the Bulgarian Athletics
Federation.
He said he believed that would only happen after the Sydney Games.
Controversy
Prandjeva is the latest in a line of athletes to test positive for the
substance, including the English 400m runner Mark Richardson and now-retired
1992 Olympic 100m champion Linford Christie.
But there remains controversy as to what extent - if at all - it can be
produced naturally as its presence in the body is sometimes put down as a
result of using certain food supplements.
Prandjeva's positive test is her second. She also showed traces of anabolic
steroids at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
On that occasion she placed fourth in the triple jump and seventh in the
long. Her results were scratched from the records and she served a two-year
ban afterwards.
She could now face a life-ban for a second offence.
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922000/922473.stm Bulgarian fails Olympic drugs test
Concerns over drug abuse threaten to mar the games
Bulgarian athlete Iva Prandjeva has tested positive for the banned drug nandrolone
on the eve of the Olympic Games.
Prandjeva was set to compete in Sydney in the long and triple jumps.
Traces of the anabolic steroid have been found in a test at the London Grand Prix
meeting on August 5. A B test is scheduled for September 20, after the games have
started.
"If the B test confirms the first we will put her case to the arbitration committee
of the IAAF [athletics' international governing body]," said Dobromir Karamarinov,
general secretary of the Bulgarian Athletics Federation.
He said he believed that would only happen after the Sydney Games.
Controversy
Prandjeva is the latest in a line of athletes to test positive for the substance,
including the English 400m runner Mark Richardson and now-retired 1992 Olympic 100m
champion Linford Christie.
But there remains controversy as to what extent - if at all - it can be produced
naturally as its presence in the body is sometimes put down as a result of using
certain food supplements.
Prandjeva's positive test is her second. She also showed traces of anabolic steroids
at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.
On that occasion she placed fourth in the triple jump and seventh in the long. Her
results were scratched from the records and she served a two-year ban afterwards.
She could now face a life-ban for a second offence.
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So, does this mean Prandzheva will or will not be able to compete in Sydney? Her "B"
sample will be tested before the triple jump, but her arbitration hearing will be
afterward.
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