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Banned athlete due to steroids use made to carry the Olympic torch

Banned athlete due to steroids use made to carry the Olympic torch The International Olympic Committee officials are not happy with the Greek Olympic Committee’s decision to let Greek Olympic hurdler, Fani Halkia, carry the torch during the torch relay through Greece.

Halkia was banned two years ago due to a positive test for an anabolic steroid, metribolone, at the Beijing Olympics. Metribolone is also known as methyltrienolone or R1881. It is a derivative of trenbolone and is a potent anabolic steroid. Metribolone, however, has a high potential for hepatotoxicity.

Halkia however, won a gold medal in Athens, so Greek Olympic officials considered her as one of the torchbearers for the Olympic torch relay. She won a gold medal in the women’s 400m hurdles in Athens. She set an Olympic record of 52.77 seconds during the semifinals.

During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing on August last year, Halkia was announced to have tested positive for metribolone. She denied using such substance and requested a B sample to be tested the next day. Her B sample also yielded the same results. On December 12, 2008, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) finally announced that she would be banned from participating in any competition for two years.

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