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Article: Diver first fights illness, then bureaucracy; Appeal clears Bonner after suspension over medication for sleeping disorder.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2000
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Somehow, Tracy Bonner isn't bitter. She says the system worked, even if she was run through a legal wringer, was stigmatized as an athlete-on-drugs and feared her diving career was kaput.
All because FINA, the international aquatic sport organization, was asleep on the job.
An NCAA champion at Tennessee and one of the top 3-meter springboard hopefuls for the U.S. Olympic team, Bonner suffers from narcolepsy. That's a neurological disorder that causes its sufferers to nod off in the middle of conversations, of meals, of driving.
"I just thought I was a busy kid," said Bonner, 26, who finished fourth in the 3-meters during last week's U.S. ...
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