Greek pole vaulter Eleni-Klaoudia Polak has been provisionally suspended from the Paris Olympics after failing a doping test, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The 27-year-old competed in the qualification round on Monday, August 5 clearing 4.20 metres but failed to advance.
Greece’s anti-doping agency informed the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) of the violation on the same Monday.
The HOC later announced that an unidentified member of its team had been prohibited from the athletes’ village.
“A few days ago something was found in my sample,” Polak said in a statement.
Polak stressed her claim of innocence as she declared, “I have never taken supplements or protein. It was below the level of what is banned so that is why I competed. I have an issue with iron and have to eat red meat daily and that must have been in the meat. I only know that the meat contained that substance.”
Source: BBC.
