Nigerian sprinter stripped of 100m gold for failing drug test
The jinx in women’s 100m at the ongoing Commonwealth Games continued. On Monday, gold medalist Osayemi Oludamola of Nigeria was provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance.
She now faces the prospect of losing her medal. Oludamola attended a Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) provisional hearing on Monday afternoon, which upheld her suspension till the result of the test on her B sample arrives on Wednesday. Oludamola had asked for the B sample to be tested. “The B sample result is expected within 48 hours,” a statement from the Games Federation said. “Further details are not expected until Wednesday morning, Delhi time.”
Manufactured as a nasal decongestant, methylhexaneamine is said to increase alertness and delay fatigue. It has been marketed as a dietary supplement and party pill. It was only formally placed on the World Anti-Doping Agency banned list at the start of this year and is to be downgraded in 2011 to a “specified stimulant,” a category covering substances that are more susceptible to inadvertent use.
CGF chief Mike Fennell had announced earlier in the day that Oludamola had tested positive for methylhexaneamine (MHA), a drug which had afflicted 12 Indian sportspersons in the build-up to the Games. The ‘tainted dozen’ escaped immediate punishment after WADA shifted it from non-specified substances list to the specified substances list. Saurabh Vij (shot putter) even competed at the Games, without any success though.
The jinx in women’s 100m at the ongoing Commonwealth Games continued. On Monday, gold medalist Osayemi Oludamola of Nigeria was provisionally suspended after testing positive for a banned substance. She now faces the prospect of losing her medal. Oludamola attended a Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) provisional hearing on Monday afternoon, which upheld her suspension till the result of the test on her B sample arrives on Wednesday. Oludamola had asked for the B sample to be tested.
CGF chief Mike Fennell had announced earlier in the day that Oludamola had tested positive for methylhexaneamine (MHA), a drug which had afflicted 12 Indian sportspersons in the build-up to the Games. The ‘tainted dozen’ escaped immediate punishment after WADA shifted it from non-specified substances list to the specified substances list. Saurabh Vij (shot putter) even competed at the Games, without any success though.
Fennell revealed that over 950 tests had been conducted and out of 700 results arrived at so far, only Oludamola had been found positive. The Nigerian got the women’s 100m gold after Australian Sally Pearson was stripped of her first position owing to a mistaken identity after a false start.
The 24-year-old Oludamola competed in the 200m semifinals on Sunday but failed to qualify for the final. Oludamola had been quite harsh after Pearson’s disqualification and had been quoted as saying: “I don’t know why they allow people to participate in competitions if they cannot follow the rules.” ref: wire services/independent/cgf/usafrica
we shouldn't condone dishonesty.
I just hope sentiments would not come into play the girl from all records has been clean and she hard Tooth ache and took the medication, to me I do not see why or how someone of her repute who knows whats at stake would indulge in such shameful act knowing what has happened to people like Marion Jones and co. May God be her judge abeg.
Has she been stripped alreeady?I thought she was only temporarily suspended pending the outcome of the B test.
She might not be stripped as she had undergone several tests in the us prior to the game and in previous years without failing any.I'm sure it's the kunu or fura de nunu that the Nigerian contingent went with that made her fail test A