Meanwhile in Doping News …

Following allegations by the German documentary of widespread doping the IOC kicked off a reanalysis of Beijing 2008 and London 2012 samples (for all sports).

As expected there are lots of weightlifters who got caught.

Here is how the retests for Beijing 2008 and London 2012 work.

Update 22.12.2018: Next Wave of 2012 Re-Test Positives.

via IWF

Ruslan Nurudinov (UZB) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone

Oleksiy Torokhtiy (UKR) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone

Meline Daluzyab (ARM) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and Stanozolol

Valentin Hristov (AZE) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone

Mikalai Novikau (BLR) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone and Stanozolol

Update 13.01.2018: Ilya’s ban ends 10.06.2018 19 October 2018.

Via Inside the Games:

Update 23.01.2018: IWF official announcement

The violation is considered as one rather than two as Ilyin had not been notified of his first violation at Beijing before he committed the second violation in London. Ilyin’s two-year length of ineligibility has been based on the rules applicable in 2008 and 2012 with two years being the basic sanction which could be imposed for a first violation involving “non-specified substances”.

From the IWF Announcement:

However, Ilya Ilyin remains ineligible to compete according to the “Tbilisi Decision”, until the suspension of the Kazakh Weightlifting Federation comes to end on 19 October 2018.

The Updated IWF Sanctioned Athletes List now shows:

Ilya Ilyin ban ends 10.06.2018, but his Kazakh ban ends 19 October 2018.

Boyanka Kostova 10.06.2018

Zulfiya Chinshanlo 10.06.2018

Yuliya Kalina 10.06.2018

Update 30.09.2017: Meanwhile in Budapest …

The IWF announced that today that the executive board unanimously decided that countries with produced three or more doping violations from the 2008 and 2012 retests will be suspended for one year.

Countries Affected: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.

Update 05.05.2017: The Kazakh federation reports that it received the following news from the IWF (via). The IWF has released no updates so far.

Maya Maneza and Zulfiya Chinshanlo are banned for two years. Svetlana Podobedova for eight years.

Their bans retroactively start on the date when the reanalysis of took place , namely 26 May 2016. This implies that Maneza and Chinshanlo will be eligible for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.

They further write that:

“With the assistance of the Weightlifting Federation of Kazakhstan the athletes managed to defend all of their non-Olympic achievements, titles and awards.”

That means for example that Zulfiya Chinshanlo’s 134kg clean and jerk world record set at world championships 2014 in Almaty will still stand.



Update 13.01.2017: Khadzhimurat Akkaev’s 2012 (!) retest came back positive. (via). Remember that Akkaev didn’t get to compete in London.

This comes months after it was announced he tested positive in 2008 as well.

Update 05.10.2016: Norik Vardanyan’s tests came back positive for dehydrochlormethyltestosterone. (via)

Update 13.09.2016: Anatoli Ciricu’s (94kg, Moldova) 2012 test came back positive. (via)

Update 24.08.2016: Next Wave of 2008 positives (via)

PASHAYEV, Nizami (AZE) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Oxandrolone, Stanozolol

KULESHA, Iryna (BLR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone

NOVIKAVA, Nastassia (BLR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol

RYBAKOU, Andrei (BLR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol

CAO, Lei (CHN) – GHRP-2 (S2. Hormones and related substances)

CHEN, Xiexia (CHN) – GHRP-2 (S2. Hormones and related substances)

LIU, Chunhong (CHN) – Sibutramine (S6. Stimulants), GHRP-2 (S2. Hormones and related substances)

GRABOVETSKAYA, Mariya (KAZ) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Oxandrolone, Stanozolol

MANEZA, Maya (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents)

NEKRASSOVA, Irina (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents)

SEDOV, Vladimir (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents)

AKKAEV, Khadzhimurat (RUS) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone

LAPIKOV, Dmitry (RUS) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone

DAVYDOVA, Natalya (UKR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone

KOROBKA, Olha (UKR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone

So with 3 Chinese positives, China is now also facing a one year country ban.

Update 29.07.2016: IWF bans Russian weightlifters from entering Rio. (via)

Update 27.07.2016: 11 more positives… (via)

Nataliya Zabolotnaya, Svetlana Tsarukaeva, Alexandr Ivanov and Andrey Demanov, Intigam Zairov, Iryna Kulesha, Hripsime Khurshudyan, Rauli Tsirekidze, Sibel Simsek, Almas Uteshov, Cristina Iovu.

So Lydia Valentin and Christine Girard jumped into gold medal spots now. Same for Anatoli Ciricu (94kg), who is currently banned (11.05.2015 – 11.05.2023).

Update 26.07.2016: Albegov’s 2012 sample supposedly came back positve. (via)

Russian weightlifting president Syrtsov says he has no information about this. (via)

Update 22.07.2016: IOC has announced a bunch more positives from additional retests (via).

30 athletes from Beijing, 15 from London

23 of the 30 Beijing positives come from medalists

the 15 positives from London are from nine countries and two sports

Update 13.07.2016: More from 2008.

Apparently Vladimir Sedov’s A sample tested positive for stanozolol. (via)

They also found stuff in Mariya Grabovetskaya’s samples (+75kg Bronze)

Update 12.07.2016: Ilya will study sports psychology and management in England. (via)

Update 07.07.2016: 3 more positives from Beijing. (via)

MARTIROSYAN, Tigran (ARM) / M69kg – Stanozolol, Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone

HASANOV, Sardar (AZE) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone

OZKAN, Sibel (TUR) – Stanozolol

Update 20.06.2016: IWF names the retest positives from the 2008 Beijing Olympics (via). Final decision about the consequences regarding Olympic quotas will be discussed in an IWF executive board meeting on 22-23.06.2016 in Tbilisi.

KHURSHUDYAN, Hripsime (ARM) – Stanozolol

DUDOGLO, Alexandru (MDA) – Stanozolol

EVSTYUKHINA, Nadezda (RUS) – dehydrochlormethyltestosterone metabolites

TAYLAN, Nurcan (TUR) – Stanozolol

SHAINOVA, Marina (RUS) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone metabolites and stanozolol metabolites

ZAIROV, Intigam (AZE) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone – Remains suspended due to previous IWF sanction until 21.12.2023

ILYIN, Ilya (KAZ) – Stanozolol– Remains provisionally suspended

Update 15.06.2016: Official Announcements are in. (via IWF).

Ilya Ilyin (KAZ) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Stanozolol

Apti Aukhadov (RUS) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Drostanolone

Boyanka Kostova (AZE) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Stanozolol

Svetlana Podobedova (KAZ) – Stanozolol

Dzina Sazanavets (BLR) – Drostanolone, Stanozolol

Maryna Shkermankova (BLR) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone, Stanozolol

Yuliya Kalina (UKR) – Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone

Yauheni Zharnasek (BLR) – Dehydrochloromethytestosterone, Stanozolol, Oxandrolone

Maiya Maneza (KAZ) – Stanozolol

Zulfiya Chinshanlo (KAZ) – Oxandrolone, Stanozolol

Update 09.06.2016: Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko wants to throw out retests due to B samples not confirming A sample results (via). Meanwhile the latest episode of the German documentary about Russian doping allegedly shows Mutko’s involvement in covering up a positive test from a football player. It’s also available in English.

Update 07.06.2016: TASS reports that according to Vladimir Shainov, the B samples from Marina Shainova and Nadezhda Evstyukhina have come back positive (for turinabol), they have yet to receive official papers on the penalties (via).

Update 04.06.2016: Kazakh weightlifting federation reports it has been notified about five positive samples by the national Olympic committee (via). Retesting of Kazakh samples will take place in Switzerland (via).

Update 01.06.2016: IOC announced it will extend the retesting program of samples from Beijing and London (via).

Some news sites claim they will test all samples, but that doesn’t follow from the source article from the IOC.