Leipold, the first German wrestler to ever test positive at the Olympics, appeared last week at a hearing of the IOC medical commission, which was investigating two positive drug cases in wrestling from the final weekend of the Sydney Games. Following the hearing, the medical commission recommended that Leipold be stripped of his medal. Leipold maintains his innocence, saying he has no idea how he could have tested positive for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid which has produced a rash of drug scandals around the world over the last two years. I don't wrestle with power but with tactic and technique. There are a lot of competitors, sportsmen, who have this problem.
Nobody know what happens, what has nandrolone in it.
Leipold said he was tested at the end of August and came out clean that time. He is the third athlete from the Sydney Olympics to lose a gold medal for a doping offense. Slay joins Gib Ford as the lone Amarillo natives to win gold medals in the Olympics. Ford was a member of the 1956 U.S. men's basketball team claiming the gold in Melbourne. Ross Davis of Amarillo won six gold medals during the 1992 and 1996 Paralympics in wheelchair competition.