2023-06-28 23:03:08
The Kazakh Weightlifter Vladimir Sedovhas been found lifeless this Monday in his hometown of Dostyk after having been several days missing. The local police have reported that the 35-year-old athlete “He committed suicide according to the testimony of his relatives”. In addition, the agents who are investigating the case have indicated that no “external signs of violent death” were found.
The Sport-expres media outlet has indicated that Sedov suffered mental health problems for six months. In addition, he has mentioned that according to compilations of testimonies, recently, the athlete had not communicated with any relative or friend, so his relatives were concerned about his current situation.
Sedov was fourth at the Beijing Olympics and world champion in 2009 and 2014, in the 94 kg category. His last international competition was in 2016 when she won a gold medal at the 386kg Asian championships. However, the athlete saw the loss of all his awards after test positive for the prohibited steroid stanozolol in a reanalysis of their sample stored at the Beijing Olympics.
A similar incident would already have earned him a two-year suspension from 2006 until May 18, 2008.
One of his great rivals and two-time Olympic champion, Ilya Ilyin, who was also suspended for doping, expressed his grief after learning of the death of his teammate and competitor Sedov. It is “very painful to see when at first a person is a star for society. And then, in a moment, turns into a nobody and he becomes guilty of the whole situation where he was just a part of the system, where he was just doing his job. He hurts a lot,’ he said.
It should be remembered that this was not the first Kazakh weightlifter to commit suicide, since in 2021 did Albert Linder, with only 25 years.
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