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By Compiled by Times staff writer
© St. Petersburg Times, published September 26, 2000
Drug plague
First it was weightlifters, then news of American C.J. Hunter's positive drug test, and now Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan is stripped of her all-around gold medal. Raducan's positive drug test came after she took Nurofen, a common over-the-counter medicine. "She is not directly responsible," said Prince Alexandre de Merode, IOC drug chief. "But we have rules, and we have to apply the rules."
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