Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan, 16, has been stripped of her all-around gold medal after testing positive for a drug banned by the International Olympic Committee, IOC German executive board member Thomas Bach said on Tuesday.

The Romanian team doctor has been expelled and suspended from the next Games in 2004 because, said Bach, he had ‘the real responsibility because he gave the girl the medicine which led to the positive test.’

However, Raducan is to be allowed to keep a team gold and a silver she won earlier in the Games.

Romanian Olympic Committee president Ioan Tiriac told reporters Raducan had tested positive for pseudo-ephedrine after taking Nurofen, an over-the-counter medicine, to treat a cold.

Raducan, who will be 17 on Saturday, won the women’s artistic all-around title last Thursday as well as the team gold and the silver in the vault.

Source: SOCOG