A Greek female swimmer on the 2016 Rio team tested positive to the use of illegal performance enhancing drugs and was disqualified from the team. The revelation was made when the anti-doping control lab in Athens confirmed her sample was positive to drug use. The head of the Greek team in Rio, Isidoros Kouvelos called the athlete to his office and informed her about the results requesting she pack her bags and immediately leave for Athens. The news came as shock among the Greek team and dampened their spirits on the opening day of the Games, with the impact of the news on Greece expected to be very negative once the news is relayed by international media. The Greek Olympic Committee confirmed the news late last night in a statement. ‘The headquarters of the Greek Olympic Committee in Rio confirms the existence of a first positive sample of a member of the Greek squad, during a doping control carried out in  the start of July in Athens. The said member has left the Olympic Village’, the announcement read.