Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith de Bruin (born 16 December 1969) is an Irish lawyer and retired Olympic swimmer. She won three gold medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, for the 400 m individual medley, 400 m freestyle and 200 m individual medley, and also won the bronze medal for the 200 m butterfly event.Smith's rise to dominance in the 1995 European Championships, followed by her wins in Atlanta, all at a relatively advanced age for swimmers, were marked by allegations of doping that were never proven. Smith was later banned for four years by FINA, the international swimming federation, for manipulation of an anti-doping sample by deliberate contamination with alcohol, a decision upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport when Smith appealed. Already superannuated in swimming terms, Smith never returned to competitive swimming and later worked as a barrister, practising under her married name of Michelle Smith de Bruin.
Despite the ban for manipulating samples, none of Smith's swimming achievements were shown to have been as a result of using performance enhancers and, therefore, not annulled, so she remains Ireland's most successful Olympian. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Iliana Bista, Shane A. McCarthy, Jonathan Wood, Zemin Ning, H. William Detrich III, Thomas Desvignes, John Postlethwait, William Chow, Kerstin Howe, James Torrance, Michelle Smith, Karen Oliver, Vertebrate Genomes Project Consortium, Eric A. Miska, Richard DurbinGet access
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