Hawkpeter wrote: ↑Thu Jul 03, 2025 9:56 pm
Hajo Seppelt from ARD in Germany has posted another documentary. This time focusing on cycling, trying to investigate why 0 doping cases at the Tour De France might not be telling the whole story.
This may be unwarranted optimism and bias, but I think the doping situation in weightlifting is different. Endurance sport doping is far more sophisticated than strength/power doping as far as I know. Irrespective of Thailand with the 5a/5b-adiols or Kazakhstan with the male birth control, it seems that everything is just either a variant of AAS, beta agonists like clenbuterol or hGH.
I'm not seeing the signs of a BALCO scandal like we saw with Marion Jones.
Re: The Sanctions Thread
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 1:44 am
by strapping
Fayzullaeva, Dilnoza
Uzbekistan
Art. 2.1 - Presence of Furosemide metabolite
Violation Date: 25 May 2024 (2024 YWC)
Ineligibility: 8 August 2024 to 7 August 2026
Results Management Authority: International Weightlifting Federation (IWF)
Disqualification: 25 May 2024 to 8 August 2024
Means Of Resolution: Agreement on consequences
strapping wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 9:27 am
Ollo Rangel, Richard Jose
Venezuela/VEN
Provisional Suspension (since 31 May 2024)
Individual Type: Athlete
Art. 2.1 – Presence of Boldenone and its metabolite
Violation Date: 26 February 2024
Ineligibility: N/A
Disqualification: N/A
Means Of Resolution :N/A
Violation date suggests it was an IC test at 2024 Pan American Weightlifting Championships held in Caracas. He placed 2nd with 137+168.
Not for the first time regarding this case, Francisco Mosquera has posted a cropped screenshot of text messages saying that his hair and nail analysis results are consistent with accidental exposure to boldenone, likely through beef. This appears to be a preliminary analysis with his legal team, with further analysis and subsequent evidence supposedly going to the ITA.
This is a potentially believable story, if the quantities found in the samples and other factors are consistent with the story. Boldenone is supposedly widely used in Colombia and Ecuador in cattle farming.
On the other hand, there have been other athletes (e.g. Fabian Hernando Puerta Zapata, cyclist) who claimed contamination but whose explanations were considered insufficient by CAS. In that case, it was because the detected urine (derived blood) values were well and truly implausible if coming from accidental oral administration.
Back to weightlifting, the FCLP (COL WL fed) claimed their three positives before Tokyo were from contaminated beef, however their sample concentrations (14ng/mL, 29ng/mL, 26ng/mL) were much more suggestive of AAS usage.
For posterity, it is worth mentioning this positive has been quietly overturned by the ITA.
This is one of the reasons why NADO's need to dispense with their platitudes about protecting clean sport. They cannot guarantee this is happening uniformly around the world. Just take the urine and blood and shut up.
Re: The Sanctions Thread
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2025 3:42 pm
by erpel
Apparently Davies GBR posted that some lifters in the WWC start book got provisionally suspended right before/at the beginning and thus didn't appear for weigh-in. But it's not public who or how many (?).
