Romanian athlete Florentina Iusco misses Paris Olympics after doping ban
Romanian lengthy jumper Florentina Iusco is not going to compete on the Paris Olympics. The Court docket of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has partially upheld the World Anti-Doping Company’s (WADA) enchantment after Iusco examined constructive for a banned substance.
Iusco was discovered to have furosemide, a diuretic on WADA’s listing of banned substances, in an out-of-competition check in April final yr. Initially, the Romanian Nationwide Anti-Doping Organisation sanctioned her with solely a warning, with no interval of ineligibility, arguing that she was not at fault or negligent.
Nonetheless, following an enchantment by WADA, CAS discovered that Iusco failed to fulfill the usual of care obligatory to assert “absence of fault or important negligence”, imposing a two-year suspension on him from 1 February this yr.
