Word: gymnast
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...make of the Hunter mess and of the turbocharging pharmaceuticals that so corrupt athletics now - all the potions to build up jocks with muscle mass and aggression and more red blood cells (and a bloated liver, maybe). One feels pained for Andreea Raducan, the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast who was stripped of her gold medal in the all-around competition because, it seems, her team physician had prescribed a cold remedy containing the stimulant pseudoephedrine. Was it fair to take the medal away when her intent seemed innocent? But what of the doctor? Was he trying to cure Andreea...
...these Games, the casualties include several eastern European weightlifters and a young Romanian gymnast who was stripped of her gold medal...
...unfortunate or stupid. Some of the recent athletes caught were using "old-school" drugs like steroids that are easily detectable; if they had some more time or money they could find a doctor who knows how to manipulate results. In the case of the young Romanian gold-medallist gymnast, she was duped by her doctor, who had put some banned drugs (not even performance-enhancing) in her cold medicine. But, as IOC drug czar Prince Alexandre de Merode pointed out, rules are rules...
...Nostrils flaring, and gold dust sparkling at the dark roots of her trendy bleached hair, she cruised through her routine like an elegant and angry bird. As she moved, the crowd was reminded how big she is for gymnast. At 164 cm., she looks as almost as tall as the beam is long. After the beam, Svetlana deflated and turned back into a too-skinny girl whose leotard was too short in the arms. She sunk into a chair sulking from sidelines until she got word that there had been a problem with the vault. For the first half...
...Olympic champion. This is the worst performance the Russian team has ever had at the Olympics." Knowing she'd need an impossibly high score to take even a bronze medal, Svetlana chose not to redo her vault and leave the question of who was the best female gymnast in the world open to discussion. Earlier in the week, before disaster struck, she had said, "losing isn't the worst thing that can happen to you." Now she had more reason to take that advice to heart...