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Old 08-21-2004, 07:09 PM   #178
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Originally Posted by YOUR Hero
won three gold medals at the 1996 Olympics; accused of using performance-enhancing drugs but passed all tests until she was suspended for 4 years by FINA in 1998 for tampering with a urine sample

http://www.infoplease.com/ipsa/A0109654.html
Yeah she got done because a urine sample she produced for a random home visit test seemed to have whiskey poured into it. The alcohol found in it was enough to kill a person, or something.

She maintains her innocence. The whole unsavoury business soured her image in Ireland and basically she can't be held up as an Olympic heroine any longer, even though she didn't test positive for drugs at the Games.

Her husband was banned from weight-lifting, I think, for banned substances, and he became her coach. That was another controversy.

Even taking into account what came later, it still wasn't fair play for the American team and media to accuse her of drug taking at the Games.
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