Nigerian sprinter Oludamola Osayomi has been stripped of the women’s 100 metres Commonwealth Games gold medal after her B sample confirmed a positive test for a banned stimulant – Methylhexaneamine.
The Commonwealth Games Federation said today in a statement that “with the ‘B’sample confirming the results of the ‘A’ sample, the Federation Court determined that Ms Oludamola had committed an anti-doping rule violation and that she be disqualified from the games and all her competition results at the 2010 Commonwealth Games be nullified.”
Natasha Mayers of St Vincent and the Grenadines will be moved up to gold, Katherine Endacott of England will get silver and Bertille Delphine Atangana of Cameroon will be awarded bronze.
The women’s 100m race was thrown into controversy even before it started, with both Laura Turner of England and Sally Pearson of Australia both false starting. Both ran anyway, and Pearson crossed first before being disqualified hours later.
Endacott originally finished out of the medals in fourth place.
‘Suspect supplements’
Also, Samuel Okon, a finalist in the men’s 110m hurdles, was suspended after a waiving his right to have his “B” sample tested. He was also disqualified from the games and his results were nullified, the federation said.
Commonwealth Games Federation President Mike Fennell said earlier on Tuesday that Okon, who was sixth in the 110 hurdles final last Friday, had also tested positive for Methylhexaneamine.
“It’s a stimulant,” Fennell said of the drug, which has also been found in samples from about a dozen Indian athletes in recent months. “At this stage I cannot speak very definitively as to where it’s coming from, but it appears to us that it may be coming from the use of supplements.”
Culled from AthleticsAfrica.Com
