Italian fencer Baldini to miss Beijing after drugs test

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

ROME (AFP) — Italy's world number one foil fencer Andrea Baldini, one of the favourites to win gold at the Beijing Olympics, has failed a drugs test, the ANSA news agency reported Friday.

The 22-year-old controlled positive for furosemide, a banned diuretic at the European Championships in Kiev last month.

Baldini will miss the Games and be replaced in the Italian fencing squad by Andrea Cassara, the Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper reported.

Furosemide is more commonly known as Lasix and appears on the World Anti-Doping Agency's banned drug list in its capacity as an alleged masking agent.

Baldini took silver, beaten in the foil final by Germany's Peter Joppich, at the world fencing championships in Saint Petersburg in September 2007.

© 2008 AFP

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