The trouble with Ostarine: Jimmy Wallhead’s
16th March 2018
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The protection of clean athletes and the fight against doping are top priorities for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as outlined in Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. To provide a level playing field for all clean athletes at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the IOC put special measures in place, including targeted pre-tests and the re-analysis of stored samples from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and London 2012, following an intelligence-gathering process that started in August 2015.
As part of this process, the IOC today announced that three athletes have been disqualified from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and London 2012. The details follow.
Vasyl Fedoryshyn, 36, of Ukraine, competing in the Men’s 55-60kg Freestyle wrestling event (1/8 Final, Quarter-final, Semi-final and Final), in which he ranked second and for which he was awarded a silver medal, has been disqualified from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008. Re-analysis of Fedoryshyn’s samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (turinabol).
The IOC Disciplinary Commission, composed for this case of Mr Denis Oswald (Chairman), Mrs Gunilla Lindberg and Dr Ugur Erdener, decided the following:
The full decision is available here.
Artur Taymazov, 37, of Uzbekistan, competing in the Men’s 96-120kg Freestyle wrestling event, in which he ranked first and for which he was awarded a gold medal, has been disqualified from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008. Re-analysis of Taymazov’s samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and stanozolol.
The IOC Disciplinary Commission, composed for this case of Mr Denis Oswald (Chairman), Mrs Gunilla Lindberg and Dr Ugur Erdener, decided the following:
The full decision is available here.
Svetlana Tzarukaeva, 29, of the Russian Federation, competing in the Women’s 63kg weightlifting event, in which she ranked second and for which she was awarded a silver medal, has been disqualified from the Olympic Games London 2012. Re-analysis of Tzarukaeva’s samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).
The IOC Disciplinary Commission, composed for this case of Mr Denis Oswald (Chairman), Mrs Gunilla Lindberg and Dr Ugur Erdener, decided the following:
The full decision is available here.
The additional analyses on samples collected during the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were performed with improved analytical methods, in order to possibly detect prohibited substances that could not be identified by the analysis performed at the time of these editions of the Olympic Games. For further details, please consult the following factsheet.
• This media release was originally published by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on 5 April 2017. To access the original, please click here.
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