Former Olympian Slipped Date Rape Drug

[Breeze54]

Former Olympian Slipped Date Rape Drug

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/sports/15957745/detail.html

Ice Dancing Gold Medalist Given GHB At Business Meeting

UPDATED: 3:05 pm EDT April 22, 2008

SANTA ANA, Calif. --

Former Olympic ice dancer Pasha Grishuk was drugged with GHB, a common date rape drug, during
a business meeting at a ritzy Orange County hotel, a sheriff's spokesman said Tuesday.



Grishuk, who won Olympic gold medals for Russia in ice dancing in 1994 and 1998, was attending
a business meeting at the St. Regis Monarch Beach on April 12 when she began to feel ill and
numb, sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said.

While eating dinner, she spotted a partially dissolved pill in the bottom of her drink. Investigators later
found another dissolved pill in the bottom of a drink she ordered in the hotel's lounge.

Amormino says toxicology tests that came back Tuesday were positive for GHB, but it wasn't immediately clear
how the pills got in Grishuk's drinks or who put them there.

"How somebody was able to do that, I honestly don't know, but it appears that somebody, for whatever reason,
attempted to drug her," he said.

GHB, or gamma hydroxy butyrate, can cause breathing problems, loss of consciousness, seizures, drowsiness,
coma and death.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration labels GHB a "predatory drug" that can be mixed with alcohol to reduce
resistance from a victim before a sexual assault. It is also popular with teenagers at raves and is sometimes
used by bodybuilders for its anabolic effects, the DEA said.

The 36-year-old Grishuk is a Ukrainian native who now lives in Los Angeles.

An e-mail to Grishuk was not immediately returned. A spokeswoman at the St. Regis did not immediately return
a call for comment.

[madaboutharry]

1. What I remember about her is

Dick Buttons saying something about a fight she had in a Beverly Hills restaurant with the wife of her lover. He said something like "She is soooo dramatic..." That has nothing to do with this incident, which is terrible.

[Breeze54]

2. I don't even remember her but what happened is pretty scary and

horrible that people still are using those drugs to prey on unsuspecting women. The dirt bags!

[alfredo]

3. That's a horrible thing to do. I hope that person get caught, sent to

prison, then the news of his crime gets leaked to fellow prisoners. Such acts against women doesn't go over well with men who are separated from their wives and girlfriends.

[Breeze54]

4. They probobly won't catch the dirtbag who did it either.

I don't know that people in prison will go after a rapist.

Seems like a lot of them are in prison for doing the same thing.

They do go after pedophiles though, rumor has it.

[alfredo]

5. Hurting women and children is the lowest of low.