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Fought like an Egyptian: Egypt's taekwondo champion shares her six-month ordeal
01.26.2012
Caroline Maher's story starts in May last year, three days prior to a national team tournament held at the Shooting Club, reports Inas Mazhar. To set the stage, starting in December 2010 an out-of-competition doping test was initiated by WADA (World Anti-Doping Association) for Egyptian national teams at the Olympic Cenre in Maadi.
"I was very sick with a severe cold but the team captain called me to take the drug test. I drove to Maadi and took the test with no team coach or doctor present. Being an out of competition period, my family doctor prescribed some medication including Septrine, Panadol Cold & Flu, and Claerenase. During the doping test, I told the WADA representative that I was sick and on some medicine. He told me to write down the names of the medication in the Doping Control Form (DCF), with the sample number 3034025. I did so," said Maher, the world's 11th ranked taekwondo player in 2011 in the bantamweight category, according to the WTF rankings.
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