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Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1987/University Daily Kansan
Drug tests nab three Pan Am medals
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS - U.S. hammer thrower Bill Green and five other athletes were disqualified Monday for the baned substances, throwing the Pan American Games into a drug scandal for the second time in four years.
Green, 27, a silver medalist from the United States, won both challenge has positive learning experience.
Nevertheless, he and the two other medal winners will be stripped of their Pan Am awards, and additional sanctions may be imposed by the governing bodies of their sports.
The disqualifications came four years after 19 athletes from 10 nations were banned from the 1983 Pan Am Games at Caracas, Venezuela. Eleven athletes from six nations were stripped of medals.
Test results were announced by Mario Vazquez Rana, president of the Pan American Sports Organization and the announcement and ratified it.
"Four years ago in Caracas we made a very, very clear statement: When someone uses something that is forbidden, he makes a mistake." Vazouze Rana said.
"When somebody uses something that is illegal, it is an error in our eyes."
eyes.
Other athletes disqualified were:
Other athletes unassigned to war. ■ Bernardo Ocando of Venezuela, winner of an individual silver and a team bronze medal in shooting. Officials said he tested positive for beta blockers, drugs commonly used to decrease the heart rate and steady the trigger fingers of shooters.
*Orlando Vasquez-Mendose of Nicaragua, winner of three bronze medals in weightlifting. Officials said he took a diuretic to make weight in the 114.5-pound class.*
Weightlifter Javier Jimenez of Colombia, whom officials said tested positive for steroids.
Weightlifter Pedro Torres of Venezuela, also cited for steroids.
■ Elnes Bollings, a basketball player from the U.S. Virgin Islands, who tested positive for a stimulant island in cold and hay fever remedies.
Vazquez Rana said two or three additional cases of possible drug use were being investigated by Pan Am officials. He declined to give details.
Vazquez Rana said that if an athlete was stripped of a Pan Am medal, the finish competitor in the order of finish could move up and claim the medal — as long as that competitor passed a drug test. However, he said, if the person who finished behind the disqualified athlete has not been tested for drugs, no one will move up to get the medal.
Vazquez Rana then said Pan Am officials would meet to discuss how to deal with awarding the medals.
In Caracas, no one moved up to claim the medals taken from the discus thrower.
Green was quoted by a U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman as saying, "My response is no comment to everything."
Stephen B. Sobel, vice president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, issued a statement that said: "The athlete has advised the USOC that he wishes
to pursue further remedies to challenge the testing procedures and results. Therefore, the USOC does not believe that it is appropriate to make any further comments regarding this situation."
Sobel said he was the one who broke the test news to Green.
"I did not tell him they were taking his medal away," Sobel said. "I told him the results of the test."
Green, the 1986 national champion,
was the runner-up for this year's U.S.
hammer title. He qualified for the
U.S. track and field team that will
compete at the World Outdoor
Championships at Rome starting
Aug. 29.
U. S. officials said Green was tested for illegal substances at the national track championships in June at San Jose, Calif.
In the past, a drug-related offense has generally drawn a lifetime ban from the International Amateur Athletic Federation, the world governing body for track and field. However, an athlete can apply for reinstatement after 18 months. All track and field athletes suspended in the past have sought and received reinstatement
A suspension of 18 months would eliminate an athlete from the 1988 season.
Officials said Vasquez-Mendose took a diuretic to lose weight so he could compete in a lower weight division. Jimenez and Torres, the other weightlifters, tested positive for nandrolone, a type of steroid, which helps liffers add muscle mass.
Green tested positive for testosterone, a male hormone that also helps
athletes add bulk
Medical authorities say steroids can have dangerous side effects, including aggressiveness, kidney malfunction and inflammation of the prostrate.
Twelve members of the U.S. track and field team flew home after the drug scandal扫弊. Pole vaulter Mike Tully later returned and won a gold medal. He also won the Pan Am gold this year.
At the 1983 Pan Am Games, eight weightlifters, including Jeff Michels of the United States, were stripped of medals for testing positive for steroids.
Rafael Noriega, technical director of the Venezuelan delegation, said he had not been formally notified of the penalties against his country's athletes. He said both Ocando and Torres had returned to Caracas.
Even as officials announced the test results for the six athletes, PASO officials disagreed over details of the testing program.
Vazquez Rana said that all medalists in each sport were being tested for the 3,700 named drugs banned in international athletic competition.
"The commission is obliged to test all medal winners," Vazquez Rana said.
However, Dr. Eduardo De Rose, acting president of the PASO medical commission, repeated his earlier statements that testing each medalist was a goal not always attained.
He said that selection of athletes to be tested was negotiated with the international governing federation of each sport.
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