The women's artistic individual all-around final at the 2000 Summer Olympics was held on 21 September at the Sydney SuperDome.

In addition to China losing their team bronze medal, Dong's 25th-place finish in the all-around final was nullified.

[8] During the warmups for the third rotation, Australian gymnast Allana Slater thought the vault looked too low after seeing it at the end of the runway.

Her concern was only amplified after performing her warmup vault, so she told her coaches, Peggy Liddick and Nikolai Lapchine.

[14] Viktoria Karpenko led the competition heading into the last rotation, but she was thrown from first place after she stumbled on the floor exercise.

Additionally, Răducan became Romania's first Olympic all-around champion since Nadia Comăneci won the title in 1976.

[6][16] Andreea Răducan, who initially won the event, had her medal stripped five days later after testing positive for pseudoephedrine.

[17] Răducan was running a fever and had the common cold, so the team doctor gave her Nurofen, leading to the positive test.

[19] She was allowed to keep her other medals and results because she did not test positive for any banned substances aside from the day of the all-around final.

[21] The International Olympic Committee (IOC) acknowledged that Răducan likely did not have a competitive advantage and was not at fault, but they had to apply to rules for failing the drug test.

Consequently, China lost its bronze medal from the team competition, and all of Dong's results from the Olympics were nullified,[33][34] including her 25th-place finish in the all-around final.

[35] Her teammate Yang Yun, who finished fifth in the all-around final and won bronze on the uneven bars, was also investigated after she admitted on national television that she was only 14 years old at the time of the Olympic Games,[36][37] but the FIG did not find enough evidence to nullify her results.

[31][38] [39][40] Three days after the competition, the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) issued an apology statement for the vault error and said they would add new specification checks for the equipment.