Nigerian boxer Cynthia Ogunsemilore has tested positive to drugs and she has been susquently suspended from the boxing event of the Paris 2024 Olympics, the International Testing Agency said on Saturday evening, www.totorinews.com reports.
The 22-year-old African Games lightweight champion tested positive for the diuretic furosemide in a sample taken on Friday NZT, the ITA said. Furosemide is a masking agent that can hide the presence of other drugs.
The ITA said Ogunsemilore is provisionally suspended and cannot take part in the Olympics.
She was due to compete on Tuesday in the round of 16 as the fourth-seeded boxer in the women’s 60-kilogram classOgunsemilore won the African Games title in her weight class last year and took bronze at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
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