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Medal hopes dashed Brazil's Parrela tests positive for steroids
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- One of Brazil's most promising runners, Sanderlei Parrela, will likely miss the Sydney Olympics after a Montreal lab confirmed he tested positive for steroids, the Brazilian Athletic Confederation said Tuesday. Parrela, 25, placed second in the 400-meter run in the 1999 Track and Field World Championships in Seville and was a favorite for an Olympic medal. The test results originally released June 29 indicated the presence of muscle-building steroids in a urine sample collected from Parrela at the Brazil Grand Prix in May. Those results were confirmed by a lab in Montreal on Monday. The Brazilian Athletic Confederation, which already had suspended Parrela, said it will decide on Parrela's punishment sometime next week. "I'm finished, I'm destroyed inside," Parrela said in a telephone interview with Globo News from where he was training in South Carolina. "Still, I have faith that I will prove myself innocent and participate in the Olympics."
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