2024-07-19 18:46:49
Two weightlifters have been caught doping during the retesting of the 2016 Olympic trials in Rio de Janeiro, the International Testing Agency announced. Turinabol was detected in the samples of both.
Sgafili are Mohamed Ehab from Egypt and Alexandru Spats (Moldova).
Thus, everything in the category up to 77 kilograms must be redesigned by the IOC. In reality, the decision has not yet been made for the champion Najad Rakhimov of Kazakhstan, who was already caught. So the gold should go to China’s Lu Xiaolong. In this situation, Mohamed Ehab should have become second, but now he has already thundered and so the silver should go to Chatuphalun Chinanwan from Thailand. The bronze was going to Spatz, but now he has to give it to Andres Caicedo from Colombia.
Because of the unique scandals in this sport, only 120 weightlifters were admitted to Paris, and the sport almost lost its place at the Olympics.
The official announcement said that in order to detect turinabol, new methods were used, not ones that were available to the laboratory in 2016 in Brazil’s largest city.