Olympic Drug Scoreboard

The Olympic Drug Scoreboard

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Olympians suspended after arrival in Games village for failing pre-Games drug tests: Taiwanese lifter Chen Po-pu expelled after testing positive for steroids (Sept 13); Kazakhstan swimmer Yevgeniya Yermakova barred for testing positive for drug masking agent Furosemide in May (Sept 13) ; Romanian weightlifters Traian Ciharean and Adrian Mateas suspended for testing positive for steroids (Sept 15); Norwegian weightlifter Stian Grimseth expelled for testing positive for steroids (Sept 18).

Also, Iranian boxer Anosheravan Nourian expelled from Olympics after confirmation he had tested positive for banned drugs and Kenyan 4x400m-relay star Simon Kemboi banned for testing positive for anabolic steroids (Sept 19); the IOC confirmed champion shot-putter CJ Hunter, husband of American sprint star Marion Jones, had tested positive to the banned steroid nandrolone four times since June (Sept 26); Women's hammer throw world champion Mihaela Melinte of Romania dropped from competition at last minute because of pre-Games positive test to the steroid nandrolone (Sept 27).

Olympians caught doping during Sydney Games: Bulgarian 52kg weightlifting silver medallist Ivan Ivanov stripped of medal for testing positive for banned diuretic (Sept 20); Belarus hammer thrower Vadim Devyatovsky banned for testing positive for nandrolone (Sept 20); Czech rider Jan Hruska tests positive for an unspecified banned substance (Sept 21); Two Bulgarian weightlifters - women's 48kg gold medallist Izabela Dragneva and men's 62kg bronze medallist Sevdalin Minchev - disqualified after returning positive drug tests (Sept 22); Latvian rower Andris Reinholds tests positive to steroids, thrown out of the Olympics and facing a lifetime ban (Sept 24); Romania's Andreea Raducan is stripped of her all-around individual gymnastics gold medal after testing positive to the banned substance pseudoephedrine (Sept 26).

Note – the above does not include the 40 members of the Chinese Olympic team and many additional athletes who tested positive for use of banned substances and didn’t travel to Sydney.