London ? Romanian gymnast Andreea Raducan paid a heavy price for listening to her doctor and taking a common cold tablet during the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She was stripped of a gold medal.

Athletes who did little more than drink too much coffee or cola often ended up similarly disgraced — or suspended.

Such disqualifications would end under a proposed new list of banned substances drawn up by the World Anti-Doping Agency, the Associated Press learned Wednesday.

One key recommendation calls for caffeine and pseudoephedrine, an ingredient in Sudafed and other over-the-counter cold remedies, to be removed from the banned category, along with phenylpropanolamine, another minor stimulant found in cold medicines.

Cannabis, or marijuana, would remain on the banned list. Modafinil, the medication that could cost American sprinter Kelli White two world championship gold medals, would be listed by name for the first time among banned stimulants.

Following more than two years of research, analysis and debate, experts now have prepared an all-encompassing list of prohibited steroids, stimulants, blood-boosters, narcotics and other drugs.

Details of the proposed list were disclosed to the AP by Arne Ljungqvist, the Swedish anti-doping official who heads WADA’s medical research committee.

The list must still be approved by the doping agency’s executive committee, which meets in Montreal next Monday and Tuesday.