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TOKYO (Reuters) - Weightlifting has been part of the programme of the Olympics since the very first event in Athens in 1896, but it is facing the risk of removal from the Games over persistent doping.
FILE PHOTO: Weightlifting - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Women s +90kg - Final - Carrara Sports Arena 1 - Gold Coast, Australia - April 9, 2018. Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand competes. REUTERS/Paul Childs/File Photo
Scores of doping cases have been uncovered in the sport in recent years, including Kazakhstan’s Rio 2016 gold medalist Nijat Rahimov, who was charged with offences by the International Testing Agency (ITA) last year.
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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.
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Jan 19 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan weightlifter Nijat Rahimov, a gold medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, has been charged with a doping offence for swapping urine samples, the International Testing Agency (ITA) has said.
The ITA also charged Dumitru Captari of Romania who competed alongside Rahimov in the under-77 kg event in Rio de Janeiro - with offences that took place “over a period of time in 2016”.
Both athletes have been provisionally suspended but it is unclear if the allegations span the 2016 Rio Games where Rahimov claimed gold with a world record lift.
“During the investigation of the incident the athlete is temporarily suspended from all sports events and training camps,” Kazakhstan’s weightlifting federation (WFRK) said in a statement.
January 20, 2021
Weightlifters Dumitru Captari of Romania and Nijat Rahimov of Kazhakstan have been “provisionally suspended until the resolution of their respective affairs” by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). This is according to a public
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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.