Olympic champion Palmer fails doping test
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Former Olympic relay champion Kylie Palmer has pulled out of the Australia team for next month’s world championships in Russia after being informed she had failed a dope test at the 2013 edition of the event.
Palmer, a 4x200m freestyle relay champion at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and a silver medalist in the same event four years later in London, was informed earlier this year that a sample she gave had shown traces of a banned substance.
When the “B” sample she submitted in Barcelona two years ago also showed traces of the substance, Palmer accepted a provisional suspension until the case was heard by a FINA doping tribunal.
“Kylie presently has no idea how the prohibited substance came into her system and is continuing to investigate the matter to the extent that she is able, given the passage of time,” Swimming Australia said. “Kylie categorically denies knowingly taking any prohibited substance in Barcelona in July 2013 or at any time in her career.”
Palmer, 25, won an individual and relay silver in the 200m freestyle at the 2011 world championships in Shanghai and followed that with another relay silver in Barcelona. She was part of the team that stunned the American and Chinese favorites to win the 4x200m relay gold in a world record time at the Water Cube in Beijing. If found guilty, she faces a two-year ban that would rule her out of a tilt at a third Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next year.
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