IWF: 15 More Lifters Test Positive from Beijing Olympics, Including Gold Medalists

[Hamartia Antidote]

https://barbend.com/iwf-announcement-15-lifters-test-positive-beijing-olympics/

In a public disclose released this morning on their website, the International Weightlifting Federation has reported that fifteen athletes have been provisionally suspended following reanalysis of their doping testing samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

These come from the International Olympic Committee’s second wave of retests from Beijing. Earlier this summer, an IWF disclosure announced seven athletes who had failed re-testing from the 2008 Olympics. Then in a 2nd wave, they announced 11 athletes who had failed re-testing from the 2012 Olympics.

The full list of newly-announced positives is below, along with their weight classes and original placings in Beijing:

Nizami Pashayev (Azerbaijan) – 5th Place, 94KG

Iryna Kulesha (Belarus) – 4th Place, 75KG (already suspended following London re-testing)

Nastassia Novikava (Belarus) – Bronze Medalist, 53KG

Andrei Rybakou (Belarus) – Silver Medalist, 85KG

Lei Cao (China) – Gold Medalist, 75KG

Xiexia Chen (China) – Gold Medalist, 48KG

Chun Hong Liu (China) – Gold Medalist, 69KG

Mariya Grabovetskaya (Kazakhstan) – Bronze Medalist, 75+KG

Maya Maneza (Kazakhstan) – DNF, 63KG (already suspended following London re-testing)

Irina Nekrassova (Kazakhstan) – Silver Medalist, 63KG

Vladimir Sedov (Kazakhstan) – 4th Place, 85KG

Khadzhimurat Akkaev (Russia) – Bronze Medalist, 94KG

Dmitry Lapikov (Russia) – Bronze Medalist, 105KG

Natalya Davydova (Ukraine) – Bronze Medalist, 69KG

Olha Korobka (Ukraine) – Silver Medalist, 75+KG

This is the first mention of Chinese athletes being associated with failed re-analysis of their drug tests from either the 2008 or 2012 Olympic Games. However, with three failed tests announced, China could potential face a one-year ban from international competition by the IWF under recently announced guidelines. Their weightlifting federation could face the same penalty that Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus were handed (and potentially Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, and Turkey as well).

Note: While the IWF experienced a website hack last week and announced the site could still be under attack, this announcement appears authentic. We’ll report back if more information comes to light.

A screenshot from the announcement with the substances detected is embedded below.



To put this announcement into further context in one category: pending medal reallocation if the provisional suspensions are upheld, Spain’s Lidia Valentin would move up from originally finishing in 5th place in the 75KG category to now a silver medal. Last month she advanced from 4th place to a gold medal after re-testing at the London Olympics, and last week she won a bronze medal in the Rio Olympics.

Canadian athlete Christine Girard will advance once spot and now have a bronze medal in the 63KG category to go along with the Gold medal that she now has after re-testing results from the London Olympics.

Medal reallocation results would also have implications for the 2008 American team as well. Cheryl Haworth, the 2000 Bronze medalist in the 75+ category. is positioned to advance two spots from 6th to 4th place overall. Kendrick Farris is positioned to advance two spots as well — from 8th to 6th place overall — in the 85KG category.

 

[war&peace]

Seems like butthurt west retaliating after the WADA leaks / hack

 

[grey boy 2]

Weightlifting
By BarBend Team / August 24, 2016

Peter C, whats your intention for posting an "OLD NEWS" for "WEIGHTLIFTING" only? how much credibility does such so-called testing has reminded anyway?
Is this another poor attempt trying to cover up the most "DOMINANT DOPING LORD IN SPORTS HISTORY" USA's a@s? If thats the case, i'm sorry, you did a extremely terrible job in doing so

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Seems like butthurt west retaliating after the WADA leaks / hack

More like the other way around. This article is from August 24th. Probably the catalyst for the hack. But we'll see how long it takes all athletes records to become public record - including the Chinese and Russian ones.

it is stated right on their web page as to what the exemptions can be
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/questions-answers/therapeutic-use-exemption-tue

 

[war&peace]

More like the other way around. This article is from August 24th. Probably the catalyst for the hack. But we'll see how long it takes all athletes records to become public record - including the Chinese and Russian ones.

it is stated right on their web page as to what the exemptions can be
https://www.wada-ama.org/en/questions-answers/therapeutic-use-exemption-tue

I see.. but I think the injustice and this fishiness needs to end...why did they not make this data public before...their intentions are clear and hackers have done the best thing.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

I see.. but I think the injustice and this fishiness needs to end...why did they not make this data public before...their intentions are clear and hackers have done the best thing.

This exemption thing isn't anything new. I'm sure after this they will be making the exemptions more public to avoid being accused of fishiness.

 

[war&peace]

This exemption thing isn't anything new. I'm sure after this they will be make the exemptions more public to avoid being accused of fishiness.

Yes, the world should know who is getting exemptions and why while the rest are being denied and being deprived of their rightful titles and awards and being banned for something they did 10 year prior to the new law...wow (ref. Maria Sharapova) and furthermore how democratic is this WADA and who gave them the authority...this should be dissolved and all they decision should be cancelled and a new organisation that has members from all the countries and makes it data publicly available online.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Yes, the world should know who is getting exemptions and why while the rest are being denied and being deprived of their rightful titles and awards and being banned for something they did 10 year prior to the new law...wow (ref. Maria Sharapova) and furthermore how democratic is this WADA and who gave them the authority...this should be dissolved and all they decision should be cancelled and a new organisation that has members from all the countries and makes it data publicly available online.

I only heard about the recent meldonium thing. She was nailed for something 10 years ago too?
The IOC created WADA in 1999 and its board is from countries around the world. I think they have 5 year terms.

https://www.wada-ama.org/en/foundation-board

 

[war&peace]

I only heard about the recent meldonium thing. She was nailed for something 10 years ago too?
The IOC created WADA in 1999 and its board is from countries around the world. I think they have 5 year terms.

https://www.wada-ama.org/en/foundation-board

No...She took that 10 yrs before this stupid law was made by the idiots.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

No...She took that 10 yrs before this stupid law was made by the idiots.

She took something 10 years ago and it showed up in a 2016 blood test?

Actually she says she continued taking it after it was made illegal. http://m.bbc.com/sport/tennis/35750285

This is a great example of how athletes who know they are going to be subjected to drug tests should list all the medications they are taking in case they need an exemption. She just didn't have good people around her to file her medical forms correctly. If they did WADA would have asked her to clarify that mislabeled drug and possibly have given her an exemption.

 

[war&peace]

She took something 10 years ago and it showed up in a 2016 blood test?

Actually she says she continued taking it after it was made illegal. http://m.bbc.com/sport/tennis/35750285

This is a great example of how athletes who know they are going to be subjected to drug tests should list all the medications they are taking in case they need an exemption. She just didn't have good people around her to file her medical forms correctly. If they did WADA would have asked her to clarify that mislabeled drug and possibly have given her an exemption.

Do you know that they store the blood / serum of the players now and the serum gets tested when new technology becomes available, they can test and if something gets detected which couldn't be detected before, they can punish the the sports person retroactively.
Now I tell you a personal experience that how people can use such technology to benefit themselves. Three years ago, I joined a gym for my personal training as it was close to from my office and home and offered 24x7 access but it was on expensive side. I signed the papers and became a member and I told one of my colleagues and asked if he want to join me for some training sessions...and told me that they are the biggest cheaters in Atlanta. If you have signed the papers as part of clauses, they can test for the use of doping and if they find you test positive, they can ban you and still keep charging your credit card for 24 months (binding period) and more scary they even get the right to file lawsuit against you even when you are doing it for personal reasons and without any intention to become a professional. They exploited many of their rich customers and then normally sign a deal, make you pay and also make you sign an NDA..wow.. Since I did not even start to go so I got my membership cancelled thanks to my colleagues' advice though they tried to make it difficult for me but I was really tough on them so those mofos had to do it.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Do you know that they store the blood / serum of the players now and the serum gets tested when new technology becomes available, they can test and if something gets detected which couldn't be detected before, they can punish the the sports person retroactively.
Now I tell you a personal experience that how people can use such technology to benefit themselves. Three years ago, I joined a gym for my personal training as it was close to from my office and home and offered 24x7 access but it was on expensive side. I signed the papers and became a member and I told one of my colleagues and asked if he want to join me for some training sessions...and told me that they are the biggest cheaters in Atlanta. If you have signed the papers as part of clauses, they can test for the use of doping and if they find you test positive, they can ban you and still keep charging your credit card for 24 months (binding period) and more scary they even get the right to file lawsuit against you even when you are doing it for personal reasons and without any intention to become a professional. They exploited many of their rich customers and then normally sign a deal, make you pay and also make you sign an NDA..wow.. Since I did not even start to go so I got my membership cancelled thanks to my colleagues' advice though they tried to make it difficult for me but I was really tough on them so those mofos had to do it.

Not sure what kind of club you joined but there is nothing illegal about taking stuff unless you are a professional athlete. Most of those muscle head weightlifters you see are taking all sorts of stuff. Unless you are popping drugs that are illegal to sell in the US then there is nothing they can do to you. They could kick you out for having needles or drugs on their property though.

If something was banned and the athlete passed the drug test only to have the banned stuff detected 10 years later due to improved tests..I don't see the issue. Sort of like getting charged for some murder 10 years later because a better DNA test technology matched you, I don't know the rules about retroactively banning somebody for a substance that at the time was not illegal. Certainly if you declared you were using something and they ok'd it...but then 10 years later they said "oops" and bye bye gold medal...that wouldn't be fair. Some Chinese members are saying American athletes are using designer drugs that haven't been identified yet. Years later when they are identified and found and declared to be unfair and illegal...the Americans aren't charged since it wasn't illegal at the time. Is that fair?

 

[Economic superpower]

Every country should be using drugs to compete on a level playing field with Western athletes that are on drugs.

 

[Dungeness]

They did not know they should have gotten a "medical exemption" from IOC to use drugs?

 

[forsigmar]

Sports are so drugged up now, everything is a big corporate advertising scam.