German wheelchair basketball player Ahmet Coskun was sent home from the Paralympic Games yesterday after failing a pre-games doping test.

German officials said Coskun's urine test on August 23 showed the presence of the banned substance, Finasteride. The substance is used as a treatment for baldness, but also can mask the use of steroids.

Coskun is the second athlete kicked out of the Paralympics for doping. Pakistani powerlifter Naveed Ahmed Butt was banned earlier in the week for two years after testing positive for the steroid, methandienone metabolites.