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Russell Garcia (born on June 20 1970 ) is a former Field Hockey player, who won the golden medal with the British squad at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul . At the age of eighteen years and three months Garcia was – and still is – the youngest olympic champion from Great Britain in history.

Garcia also competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 1996 Summer Olympics . He played club hockey in England , Germany and the Netherlands . He tested positive for the consumption of Cocaine on December 2 1999 , and was immediately suspended for three months by the Great Britain Olympic Hockey Board as well as by the German Hockey Board.