AUSTRALIA: ROMANIAN GYMNAST ANDREEA RADUCAN IS STRIPPED OF HER ALL ROUND GOLD MEDAL AFTER POSITIVE DRUGS TEST

Record ID: 979972

  • Title: AUSTRALIA: ROMANIAN GYMNAST ANDREEA RADUCAN IS STRIPPED OF HER ALL ROUND GOLD MEDAL AFTER POSITIVE DRUGS TEST
  • Date: 28th September 2000
  • Summary: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (SEPTEMBER 26, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. STILL PHOTO OF ROMANIAN GYMNAST ANDREEA RADUCAN AFTER WINNING SILVER MEDAL FOR THE APPARATUS FINALS 2. REGENT HOTEL INTERIOR WHERE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC) MET 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) IOC GERMAN EXECUTIVE BOARD MEMBER, THOMAS BACH, SAYING "There were two gold and one silver, the first gold, there was a test, the test was negative, then there was the second gold, the test was positive, this medal will be withdrawn and there was a third test which was negative again, this is the silver medal so she may keep the silver medal. The team doctor will be expelled from the Games and will be suspended for Salt Lake City and the Games in Athens because we think he has the real responsibility in this case because he prescribed this little girl this medicine which led to the positive case." 4. JOURNALISTS 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FRANCOIS CARRARD, IOC DIRECTOR GENERAL, SAYING: "The Romanian gymnast's result at the event has been invalidated and she has to turn in her medal for that all-around event and that's it." 6. CUTAWAY 7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CARRARD SAYING "You must understand where we come from, we have new regulations which are much harsher - the mere presence of the substance in the body of the athlete constitutes doping, regardless of whether it was conscious or wilful or not, Now in this case, a very young athlete was tested positive for doping, because a physician prescribed the products containing the prohibited substance, ephedrine, now we think the responsibility, and I'm not questioning the honourability of the physician, none of that, but the responsibility of a team physician vis-a-vis an athlete, particularly a very young athlete is fundamental, and we could not see the athlete being sanctioned and a physician responsible for the prescription, getting off the hook. It has to be hard, sad, but it's hard." (FILE - SEPTEMBER 24, 2000) (REUTERS) 8. STILL PHOTO OF ROMANIAN GYMNAST ANDREEA RADUCAN AFTER WINNING SILVER MEDAL FOR THE APPARATUS FINALS SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (FILE) (REUTERS) 9. DOPE TESTING FACILITIES IN SYDNEY/TESTS BEING CARRIED OUT SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (SEPTEMBER 26, 2000) (REUTERS) 10. WIDE SHOT ANITA DE FRANTZ, IOC VICE-PRESIDENT 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DEFRANTZ SAYING: "You know the doctors have been involved with a lot of this doping in sports, and I have felt for far too long they have gotten off. It's not ignorance, they've got their medical degrees, they've had to learn the science, they've had to learn chemical make-up and they know what they're doing and I thought it's just been terrible for a very long time and I've thought that they are the ones most complicit in this." 12. WIDE SHOT DE FRANTZ 13. ROMANIAN NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE PRESIDENT IOAN TIRIAC WALKING THROUGH HOTEL Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
  • Country: Australia
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