Athens - Puerto Rican wrestler Mabel Fonseca and Hungarian weightlifting silver medallist Ferenc Gyurkovics have been thrown out of the Olympics after failing drugs test, officials said.
Fonseca, 32, tested positive for banned steroid stanozolol after competing in the women's freestyle wrestling 55kg competition where she finished fifth, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in a statement.
Gyurkovics meanwhile was stripped of his medal from the 105kg weightlifting competition after traces of the anabolic steroid oxandrolone were found in his system after a test on August 24.
A total of 19 named athletes have been kicked out of the Olympics since the IOC began its testing period on July 30. Continues Below ↓
A further four more have been banned for either failing to undergo tests or attempting to manipulate test results.
Timeline of doping cases during the Olympic games
AFP Sport lists the cases since July 30 when Olympic drug testing began. The Olympic in-competition period runs from then until the Closing Ceremony on August 29:
Aug 9 - Two baseball players from Greece's Olympic team test positive for drugs. The two were named as Andrew James Brack and Derek Nicholson, both US citizens of Greek descent.
Brack tested positive for the steroid stanozolol and Nicholson for the diuretic hydrochloro-thiazide.
Aug 11 - Kenyan boxer David Munyasi out of Olympics after testing positive for cathine, a stimulant closely related to ephedrine, hours after arriving in the Greek capital.
Aug 12 - The Greek Olympic Committee confirmed that Olympic 200m champion Kostadinos Kenteris and Ekaterini Thanou, the silver medallist in the 100m at the Sydney Olympics, missed scheduled drug tests.
Aug 12 - Spanish cyclist Janet Puiggros Miranda was kicked off her Olympic Games team after testing positive for erythropoietin (EPO).
This article was originally published
on August 28, 2004
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