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20 January, 2021, 1:37 pm
From left: Silver medalist Xiaojun Lyu of China, gold medalist Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan and bronze medalist Mohamed Mahmoud of Egypt celebrate on the podium after the Men s 77kg weightlifting competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Picture: REUTERS.
Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov has been charged with swapping his urine samples in a doping case that could threaten his gold medal.
The International Testing Agency said late Monday (Tuesday NZT) it charged Rahimov and Dumitru Captari of Romania with “an anti-doping rule violation for ‘Urine Substitution’ which would have occurred over a period of time in 2016.”
It is unclear if the allegations include the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where Rahimov took gold with a world-record lift in the men’s 77-kilogram class. Captari competed in the same event.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov has been charged with swapping his urine samples in a doping case that could threaten his gold medal. The.
The International Testing Agency said late Monday that it charged Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov with an anti-doping rule violation that could threaten his gold medal.
Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Nijat Rahimov, a gold medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, is one of the first two weightlifters ever to be charged with a doping offence for allegedly swapping urine samples.
The alleged offences took place over a period of time in 2016 according to the International Testing Agency (ITA), the body that has laid the charge.
Based on evidence from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its own findings, the ITA has also charged Dumitru Captari of Romania - who competed alongside Rahimov in the under-77 kilograms event in Rio de Janeiro - with swapping his urine sample.
Both men are provisionally suspended after being charged under article 2.2 of the International Weightlifting Federation s (IWF) anti-doping policy.