Nigerian boxer Cynthia Ogunsemilore has been removed from the Paris Olympics women’s tournament after testing positive for a banned doping substance, the International Testing Agency (ITA) announced on Saturday.
The 22-year-old African Games lightweight champion tested positive for the diuretic furosemide, which is classified as a masking agent that can hide the presence of other drugs. Ogunsemilore is provisionally suspended and cannot take part in the Olympics.
Ogunsemilore was due to compete on Monday in the round of 16 as the fourth-seeded boxer in the women’s 60-kilogram (132-pound) class. She won the African Games title in her weight class last year and took bronze at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
