Ricky Chaplin fails drugs test

Title

Ricky Chaplin fails drugs test

Genre

Speech

TX Date

31 Jan 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:01:51

Description

Speech by Sam Coffa, President of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Federation, on the case of Welsh weightlifter, Ricky Chaplin, whose been stripped of his Commonwealth Games gold medal after traces of the anabolic steroid testosterone were found in a urine sample. For breakfast programme.

Contributors

Sam Coffa

Keywords

Sport; Sports competitions; Drugs; Wales; Commonwealth games; Sportsmen; Anabolic steroids; Ricky Chaplin

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