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Bulgaria's Iva Prandjeva tests positive for nandrolone
SOFIA, Sept 12 (AFP) - Bulgarian athlete Iva Prandjeva, who was set to compete in Sydney in the long and triple jump, suffered a huge setback when a test for nandrolone following a London meeting last month turned up traces of nandrolone, the Bulgarian news agency BTA reported Tuesday. The banned anabolic steroid turned up after a test at the London Grand Prix on August 5 and a B test is scheduled for September 20. Prandjeva is the latest in a line of athletes to test positive for the substance and there remains controversy as to what extent - if at all - it can be produced naturally as its presence in the body is sometimes put down as a result of using certain food supplements. "If the B test confirms the first we will put her case to the IAAF's arbitration committee," said Dobromir Karamarinov, general secretary of the Bulgarian Athletics Federation. He said he believed that would only happen after the Sydney Games. Prandjeva's positive test is her second as she also showed traces of anabolic steroids at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. On that occasion she placed fourth in the triple jump and seventh in the long. Her results were scratched from the records and she served a two-year ban afterwards. She could now face a life-ban for a second offence.
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