Katherine Endacott in line for silver after champ’s positive drugs test

All change: Osayemi Oludamola and Katherine Endacott
13 April 2012

Commonwealth Games 100metres champion Osayemi Oludamola has failed a drugs test and today's news could mean England's Katherine Endacott will get silver despite finishing fourth in the controversial race.

The first doping scandal of the Delhi Games has added another twist to Thursday's sprint, which was won by Sally Pearson only for her to then be disqualified for a false start — a decision which left the Australian in tears.

Now Oludamola looks set to be denied gold after testing positive for methylhexaneamine, which was only recently added to the list of banned substances by the World Anti‑Doping Agency.

Nigerian officials claim the positive result was down to medication that their athlete had been given to treat toothache.

"We strongly suspect that it was that which led to her failed drugs test," said Solomon Ogba, the president of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria.

Oludamola's B sample was being tested today and if it also positive then Natasha Mayers, of St Vincent and the Grenadines, will be given gold while Endacott, who ran a personal best of 11.44sec, will be promoted to silver.

Games chief Mike Fennell said: "Any positive test, whether in a high-profile event or not, is something we very much regret because we all strive for a clean Games and a clean sport. We don't know what sort of damage will accrue but we want to let everyone know that we are very vigilant and we are doing all we can to eliminate doping in sport."

Scottish shooting duo Kay Copland and Jen McIntosh picked up the home nations' first gold today by winning the 50m prone pairs title, knocking English pairing Sharon Lee and Michelle Smith into second place in the process.

England's women's hockey team missed out on a chance to go for gold after losing 1-0 to Australia in their semi-final following a deflected goal by Australian captain Madonna Blyth.

In the boxing, England fighter Callum Smith continued his family's tradition at the Games as he booked his place in the final of the 69kg category. Smith's brothers Paul and Stephen won silver and gold at the 2002 and 2006 Games respectively and the 20-year-old set up the prospect of going for gold in Wednesday's final with a late left hook in his encounter with Carl Hield, of the Bahamas.

In the rugby sevens England eased into the quarter-finals with convincing victories over Sri Lanka (59-7) and Uganda (55-0).

Yesterday, Standard Sport columnist Lizzie Armitstead won silver in the women's cycling road race but it has since emerged the Briton had been riding with a broken toe after a railing along the course fell onto her in the final few kilometres of the race.

Armitstead said: "I didn't ride into the railings, they were coming down in front of me. You don't normally feel pain on the bike but it was throbbing immediately."

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