FILE PHOTO: Brenton Rickard of Australia bites his gold medal on the podium after setting a new world record in the men's 100m breaststroke swimming final at the World Championships in Rome July 27, 2009. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Former world champion swimmer Brenton Rickard expressed relief after Olympic authorities withdrew from a doping case against him, and said he hoped his ordeal would help fine-tune a testing system to better weed out innocent athletes from guilty ones.
In a case that could have seen Australia stripped of Olympic medals for the first time, Rickard tested positive for Furosemide after a re-analysis of a sample he gave at the 2012 London Olympics found trace amounts of the banned diuretic and masking agent.
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