New Delhi: Doping continued to dog the Commonwealth Games as Nigerian runner Folashade Abugan was today stripped off her women's 400m and 4x400m relay silver medals in the just-concluded event after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid.
With this, the number of dope-tainted athletes in the Games has gone up to four with three of them being Nigerian.
"Nigerian runner Folashade Abugan, returned an adverse analytical finding from a test conducted on October 8, 2010, after competing in the women's 400 metre final," the Commonwealth Games Federation said in a statement.
"Ms Abugan's 'A' sample was found to demonstrate findings consistent with an exogenous origin of endogenous steroids.
The delta values indicate an application of testosterone prohormone, which is prohibited under the current WADA Prohibited List S1 Anabolic Agents," the statement read.
Abugan admitted her guilt after refusing to have her B sample tested.