The Sanctions Thread

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Comments in square brackets are my own.

Al-Lami, Qasim Hasan Abdulhussein
Iraq
Art. 2.1 – Presence of Stanozolol metabolites
Provisional suspension
Violation date: 30 October 2024

Bedward, Shania Sophia
Canada
Art. 2.1 – Presence of Modafinil metabolite [Probably not used as PED for WL; likely tapered off to avoid IC positive. Modafinil is legal OOC]
Violation date: 19 September 2024 [Commonwealth Championships 2024, Fiji.]

[Hawkpeter]

WADA 2025 update has been out for a bit, here is the summary.

https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/default/ ... r_2024.pdf

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Sanctioning decisions and appeals for previous decisions.

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Veli, Evagjelia
Albania
Athlete
Art. 2.1 - Presence of Stanozolol metabolite and exogenous 5αAdiol and/or 5βAdiol
Violation Date: 29 May 2022
Ineligibility: 27 July 2022 to 26 July 2027 (4 years)
DSQ : 29 May 2022 to 27 July 2022
Means Of Resolution: Sanctioning Decision

Ni, Aleksey
Kazakhstan
Athlete Support Personnel [Coach]
Art. 2.5 - Tampering; Art. 2.9 - Complicity
Violation Date: N/A
Ineligibility: 20 January 2025 to 19 January 2029
Means Of Resolution: Sanctioning Decision

Ni, Viktor
Kazakhstan
Athlete Support Personnel [Coach]
Art. 2.5 - Tampering; Art. 2.9 - Complicity
Violation Date: N/A
Ineligibility: 20 January 2025 to 19 January 2029
Means Of Resolution: Sanctioning Decision

[Hawkpeter]

In case anyone was curious about how anti-doping is going in another sport like athletics, you might consider checking out

https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/disc ... s-in-force

There is a significant problem in Kenya in particular with positive tests right now.

[Hawkpeter]

Every now and then this excuse is deployed. Not weightlifting related but its one of the more, interesting, doping cases.

[Elle]

Wow!

The problem of possible contamination (without having any kind of effects) is actually very big.

In Italy we had a similar problem with Sinner.

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In case anyone was curious about how anti-doping is going in another sport like athletics, you might consider checking out

https://www.athleticsintegrity.org/disc ... s-in-force

There is a significant problem in Kenya in particular with positive tests right now.

Yeah Kenya has a long history with doping, I think over 300 banned athletes in the last 10 years. It's only natural I guess, the people are poor, the talent pool is huge/competitive and the rewards are enormous. They've even published publicly available researchon it.

The difficulty of detecting rHuEPO in competition obviously makes things harder given EPO doping is likely rife in Kenya amongst more well resourced athletes. The poorer ones just get popped for nandrolone.

Athletics has always been the answer as to why I think weightlifting getting kicked out of the Olympics has little to do with doping, in a direct sense. Doping is bad PR, but it's only unacceptable if people get caught or if it doesn't bring in money/viewership.

[Hawkpeter]

Here's an unusual one. Pakistan with a pair of support personnel given 4 year bans for tampering.

Akbar, Muhammad Waqas & Butt, Amjad Amin
Athlete Support Personnel
ADRV
Art. 2.5 - Tampering; Art. 2.9 - Complicity
Violation Date
10 November 2021
Ineligibility
24 February 2025 to 23 February 2029

Results Management Authority
International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)
Disqualification
N/A
Means Of Resolution
CAS ADD

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Here's an unusual one. Pakistan with a pair of support personnel given 4 year bans for tampering.

Akbar, Muhammad Waqas & Butt, Amjad Amin
Athlete Support Personnel
ADRV
Art. 2.5 - Tampering; Art. 2.9 - Complicity
Violation Date
10 November 2021
Ineligibility
24 February 2025 to 23 February 2029

Results Management Authority
International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)
Disqualification
N/A
Means Of Resolution
CAS ADD

This is not a new case, just the finishing up of the Pakistan case from 2021.

[Hawkpeter]

Djangabaev got his own page.

https://ita.sport/news/the-ita-reports- ... igibility/

'Given that more than three athletes ⁴ from the Uzbekistan Weightlifting Federation have committed ADRVs within a 12-month period, this has triggered Article 12.3 ⁵ of the IWF Anti-Doping Rules. As a result, the matter will be referred to IWF’s Independent Member Federation Sanctioning Panel (IMFSP) to impose appropriate consequences.'

So lets see how consistent on this IWF will be, Ukraine got off lightly.