Ioachim OANA: I still feel guilty!

In case of Raducan 2000...
After five years of silence, the Romanian doctor Ioachim Oana, who gave Andreea Raducan the Nurofen pill prior to the all-around competition after which she tested positive for a banned substance and lost her AA-title, accepted to give Romania’s second sports newspaper 'PROSPORT' an interview where he talks and answers questions about the “Nurofen-case” around Andreea Raducan adding together more details....

Asked whether he is still in contact with Andreea Raducan from that moment in Sydney on, he declares:
I.O.: -- “Yes, our relationship is as good as ever, despite the fact the many people asked her to guilt me in public for the things that happened. I still call her to wish her Happy Birthday, and so does she.”

He declares to still maintain relations to the team coaches and that he has been even proposed returning to the team in his function as the team doctor (I. Oana was expelled from the Sydney 2000 OG and banned for the 2004 Athens Olympic Games as well as barred from participating in the World, European Championships and any other FIG-sponsored international events for four years = until 2005):
I.O.:--- I’m regularly talking to Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang and even requested to go back to the team however just when I decided to return, the Petrovschi-Scandal started off.
With regard to that, Oana asserts that injuries like those of Petrovschi are unfortunately common among all gymnasts, resulting from practicing and training a competitive sport.
source: prosport/ROM

The article entitled “Three mouthfuls of water” (a quote of Andreea) features a very up-to-date interview/-portrait as well as recent pictures of of the Romanian gymnast who talks about her activities both throughout her competitive gymnastics career (especially comments on the Sydney-episode) as well as after, her life right now and her plans for the future.

Asked about why she “always hides”, Andreea responds that she doesn’t like being a public person, always being featured in the press. Quote: “If I would be in the papers all the time, people would get bored seeing my face over and over again”.

The article alludes to the happenings at the Olympic Games in Sydney, 2000, where Raducan was stripped of her all-around gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance in a drug (Nurofen®) she was given unintentionally by team doctor Ioachim Oana after reporting headache and fever during podium training.
„Three mouthfuls of water“ is a quote of Andrea Raducan since in the interview, she retrospectively supposes that if she would have taken the pill with „Two or three mouthfuls of water“ instead of swallowing it just with saliva (being on the podium, working on the balance beam at the moment) it might not have been that concentrated in the sample she provided after the AA-competition, testing positive later-on.

Ironically, according to the Summary of Key Changes to the WADA Prohibited List 2004, published by WADA in 2003, the banned substance „pseudoephidrine“ in Nurofen®, that made her test positive:
(…) „...has been removed from the banned list from Jan 1st. This is good news as it means that athletes can take many decongestant remedies, which were previously prohibited (e.g. Codral, Coldrex, Nurofen Cold and Flu, Sudafed) to alleviate symptoms of the common cold... (…).

She is still in touch with Ioachim Oana and considers him not guilty, describing him as “a very nice person; a sentimentalist” .

On the question how much money she still owns from her times as a gymnast she tells Gazeta that although she was offered and signed an advantageous contract with the manufacturing company of Nurofen, half of them got spent quickly and she even finds herself without money sometimes.