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Raducan caught doping

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BUCHAREST, Sept 25 (AFP) - Freshly-crowned Olympic all-round gymnastics champion Andrea Raducan has failed a dope test for a banned substance, believed to be ephedrine, the Romanian Olympic Committee (COR) said Monday.

The medical commission of the International Olympic Committee sent a letter to the Romanian gymnastics delegation in Sydney saying it had detected "positive signs" in her sample following a test on Sunday after she had won silver on the vault.

She also captured team gold in Sydney.

A COR official in Sydney, Alexandru Mogos, said Raducan had tested negative on Friday after the team event.

The IOC's medical commission are set to demand an early explanation from Raducan, her coach Octavian Belu and the Romanian delegation.

COR president Ion Tiriac said the IOC medical commission would propose a sanction against Raducan on Tuesday.

"The medical commission will decide on a formula for punishing her, her doctor or her coach on Tuesday," Tiriac told Romanian commercial broadcaster Pro-TV from Sydney.

Pro-TV also reported that the IOC medical commission had proposed that Raducan be stripped of her overall gold but would be allowed to keep the team gold and her silver medal.

Tiriac said the COR had been informed that Raducan has tested positive for "pseudo-ephedrine", a substance which does not figure on the International Gymnastics Federation list of banned products but which is banned by the IOC.

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