The International Olympic Committee (IOC) reports that one athlete committed an anti-doping violation at the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, which took place 16-28 August 2014 in Nanjing, China. ‘The athlete, who competed in taekwondo, tested positive for the diuretic Furosemide, a prohibited substance’, read a 5 November IOC media release. ‘After reviewing the files and information at hand, the IOC Disciplinary Commission, set up by the IOC President and chaired by IOC member Richard Pound, disqualified the athlete from the 2014 YOG. Due to the fact that the athlete was a minor at the time of the anti-doping violation, the IOC has chosen not to disclose his/her name.’

The IOC said that the Disciplinary Commission has asked the World Taekwondo Federation to investigate the circumstances which led to the violation. The IOC conducted 596 pre and post competition tests (490 urine and 106 blood) in Nanjing. All samples were tested at the Beijing laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency. The IOC said that all the samples collected would be stored for ten years, in case ‘new fully validated tests to detect new prohibited substances/methods become available’.