SEA Games Federation recent meeting in Laos announced that five athletes will be stripped of their SEA Games medal They were from boxing, volleyball, polo and athletics The athlete in question for athletics is Narcisa Atienza, the SEA Games 2007 bronze medalist in the heptathlon, caught after her sample contain banned substance It is unknown how long the ban will last as it depends on the athlete individual nation sports federations But her coach, defended her, saying it was “just painkiller and not a performance-enhancing drug” He claims that before she flew to Thailand, the doctor administered the painkiller to Atienza The same painkiller he said was given to all their athletes but only Atienza test came out positive They are planning to dispute the result of the drug test
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