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Olympic boxing bronze medallist Suriya Prasathinpimai and volleyball player Supachai Jitchamroon were tested positive for banned substances during last year's 24th SEA Games in Nakhon Ratchasima. Dr Varin Tansupasiri, medical chief of the 24th Games, presented the doping test results to yesterday's SEA Games Federation meeting in Laos.
Suriya and Supachai are among five athletes who failed dope tests. The other three are Dato Mohamed Moiz of Malaysia (men's polo), Dinh Thi Phoung Thanh of Vietnam (women's boxing) and Ativeza Marcasia of the Philippines (women's heptathlon). A total of 676 samples were tested during the Korat Games.
They are stripped of their medals. Middleweight Suriya won gold, while Supachai was in the Thai team that got bronze.
Both said they were innocent. Suriya said he had never taken any banned substance, while Supachai claimed the medicine he took during the competition might have contained a banned substance.
''They are stripped of their medals,'' said Charoen Wattanasin, a Thai representative in the Federation. ''But how long they will be banned depends on each international sports federation.''
With Suriya's gold medal stripped, Thailand's gold medal tally was reduced to 182.
Suriya was one of Thailand's most successful amateur boxers. He won bronze at the 2004 Olympics. He was slated to compete in a qualifying tournament for the 2008 Olympics earlier this year but withdrew due to ''injury''.
In a related development, the SEA Games Federation has not yet finalised the number of sports events for the 25th Games in Laos in 2009. The hosts want to organise only 22 sports but other countries prefer 25.
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Olympic boxing bronze medallist Suriya Prasathinpimai and volleyball player Supachai Jitchamroon were tested positive for banned substances during last year's 24th SEA Games in Nakhon Ratchasima. Dr Varin Tansupasiri, medical chief of the 24th Games, presented the doping test results to yesterday's SEA Games Federation meeting in Laos.
Suriya and Supachai are among five athletes who failed dope tests. The other three are Dato Mohamed Moiz of Malaysia (men's polo), Dinh Thi Phoung Thanh of Vietnam (women's boxing) and Ativeza Marcasia of the Philippines (women's heptathlon). A total of 676 samples were tested during the Korat Games.
They are stripped of their medals. Middleweight Suriya won gold, while Supachai was in the Thai team that got bronze.
Both said they were innocent. Suriya said he had never taken any banned substance, while Supachai claimed the medicine he took during the competition might have contained a banned substance.
''They are stripped of their medals,'' said Charoen Wattanasin, a Thai representative in the Federation. ''But how long they will be banned depends on each international sports federation.''
With Suriya's gold medal stripped, Thailand's gold medal tally was reduced to 182.
Suriya was one of Thailand's most successful amateur boxers. He won bronze at the 2004 Olympics. He was slated to compete in a qualifying tournament for the 2008 Olympics earlier this year but withdrew due to ''injury''.
In a related development, the SEA Games Federation has not yet finalised the number of sports events for the 25th Games in Laos in 2009. The hosts want to organise only 22 sports but other countries prefer 25.
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