{"id":486084,"date":"2024-08-07T15:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T19:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486084"},"modified":"2024-08-07T15:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T19:02:37","slug":"greek-pole-vaulter-disqualified-after-testing-positive-for-doping","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/greek-pole-vaulter-disqualified-after-testing-positive-for-doping\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek pole vaulter disqualified after testing positive for doping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek pole vaulter Eleni-Klaoudia Polakwas disqualified from the Paris Olympics after testing positive for banned substances, as announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Hellenic Olympic Committee had initially reported that a member of their team was expelled from the athletes&#8217; village without disclosing her identity, which has now been confirmed as Polak.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Greek pole vaulter Polak suspended for doping: Greek pole vaulter Eleni-Klaoudia Polak is provisionally suspended from the Paris Olympics after failing a doping test, the International Olympic Committee says. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0k1mSI9znd\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/0k1mSI9znd<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pyyhqcyz7C\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Pyyhqcyz7C<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Global Voters (@global_voters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/global_voters\/status\/1821257531483943043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Greek anti-doping agency informed the team of the violation on Monday, the same day Polak competed in the qualifiers. Despite clearing a height of 4.20 meters, she did not advance to the final on Wednesday after failing to surpass 4.40 meters and was subsequently listed as disqualified in the results.<\/p>\n<p>Polak denies any intentional use of banned substances, attributing the positive test to her diet. &#8220;A few days ago, something was found in my sample,&#8221; she stated to reporters after competing in the qualifiers. &#8220;I have never taken supplements. It was below the banned level, so I competed. I have an issue with iron and need to eat red meat every day, and that must have been in the meat. I only know that meat contains this substance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek pole vaulter Eleni-Klaoudia Polakwas disqualified from the Paris Olympics after testing positive for banned substances, as announced by the International Olympic Committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":486085,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17669,19028],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[19982,19029],"acf":{"announce":"Eleni-Klaoudia Polak denies any intentional use of banned substances","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486086,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486084\/revisions\/486086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486084"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486084"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}