Iusco banned for doping on eve of Paris Games

Romanian athlete Florentina Iusco will not compete at the Paris Olympics after global sport’s top court partially upheld a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) appeal on Thursday following her positive test for a banned substance last year. The 28-year-old, who competes in the long jump and triple jump, tested positive for furosemide, a diuretic on Wada’s […]

Romanian athlete Florentina Iusco will not compete at the Paris Olympics after global sport’s top court partially upheld a World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) appeal on Thursday following her positive test for a banned substance last year.

The 28-year-old, who competes in the long jump and triple jump, tested positive for furosemide, a diuretic on Wada’s prohibited list, in an out-of-competition doping control in April 2023.

The analysis of both her A and B samples confirmed the result, resulting in an anti-doping rule violation.

Romania’s National Anti-Doping Organisation sanctioned her only with a reprimand on February 1 with no period of ineligibility on the basis that she was not at fault or was not negligent.

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However, after Wada appealed that decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), the arbitrator determined she had failed to exercise the standard of care required for a “no significant fault or negligence” finding.

CASimposed a two-year ban on Iusco backdated to February 1 and disqualified all of her results from April 23 last year.

Wada had originally sought a two-year ban from the day CAS rendered its decision.

The athletics events in Paris begin on August 1.