High jump world record holder Javier Sotomayor gave a veiled hint that he retired because he had taken banned substances, the Cuban athletics federation told world governing body IAAF, it emerged on Wednesday. "About a month ago the Cuban federation sent us a letter to inform us that Sotomayor was retiring and that he was aware that there were banned substances in his body," International Association of Athletics Federations spokesman Nick Davies told AFP. The 35-year-old 1992 Olympic champion, who retired from competition in October last year, failed a doping test twice - in 1999 and 2001. Sotomayor won an Olympic silver medal in 2000 after having a two-year suspension reduced to one for testing positive for cocaine at the 1999 PanAmerican Games. The athlete denied taking the anabolic steroid nandrolone for which he tested positive at a meet in Tenerife, Spain in July 2001.
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3 jaar geleden schreeuwde Cuba nog moord en brand dat het een complot was van het westen om deze geweldige atleet naar beneden te halen, jadajadajada en nu heeft meneer toch gewoon gesnoven en uit de verboden pillendoos genomen! Niet te vertrouwen die Cubaanse atletiekfederatie!