Team Romania dropped to 106 representatives at the Paris Olympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport partially upheld a ban imposed on athlete Florentina Iu\u0219co by the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA.<\/p>\n
Iu\u0219co tested positive for furosemide, a banned diuretic, in April 2023. The analysis of both her A and B samples confirmed the result, resulting in an anti-doping rule violation. The 28-year-old was going to compete in the long jump event at the Olympics.<\/p>\n
After the positive test, Romania’s National Anti-Doping Organisation sanctioned her with a reprimand with no period of ineligibility on the basis that she was not at fault or was not negligent. However, after WADA appealed that decision to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the arbitrator determined she had failed to exercise the standard of care required for a “no significant fault or negligence” ruling.<\/p>\n
According to Reuters<\/a>, CAS imposed a two-year ban on Iu\u0219co backdated to February 1 and disqualified all of her results from April 23 last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Romania is now represented by 3 male and 9 female athletes<\/a> in the athletics section at the Paris Olympics after Iu\u0219co\u2019s ban.<\/p>\n