Olympic skater finds date rape drug in drink

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

LOS ANGELES (AFP) — A mysterious substance that Russian Olympic medalist Oksana Grishuk found in her drink during a business meeting in California tested positive for the date rape drug GHB, police said Tuesday.

The skater, who won Olympic gold for ice-dancing in 1994 and 1998 while performing under the name Pasha Grishuk, discovered what looked to be a partially dissolved pill in her glass of wine on April 12.

"She was attending a business meeting with at least one other man" at the St. Regis Monarch Beach Resort in Dana Point, 60 miles (97 kilometers) south of Los Angeles, according to Orange County sheriff spokesman Jim Amormino.

"She started feeling weird and sick and, when she went to drink from her wine glass, she noticed a partially dissolved pill,"...