Kylie Palmer has withdrawn from Australia’s team for next month’s world championships in Russia after a positive drug test, Swimming Australia said on Thursday.
The 25-year-old, a Beijing Olympics relay gold medallist in 2008 and a Commonwealth Games champion, has accepted a provisional suspension after testing positive to a banned drug almost two years ago. Swimming’s world governing body FINA only told Palmer in April about the failed test at the 2013 world championships in Barcelona.
Palmer said in a statement she had been trying to investigate how the positive test arose but it was “a task that is almost impossible given the extraordinary passage of time”.
