Olympic Games - 2008 & 2012 Doping Retest Result Disaster!

[MountTiede]

Following the recent development of a doping testing procedure an order of magnitude more sensitive than previously available, the International Olympic Committee elected to reanalyse samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and London 2012 Games, starting with the Olympic Weightlifters:

Results from the first small group of retests showed that 20 weightlifters (10 from Beijing / 10 from London) tested positive, and included most of the Gold medalists!

The testing continued, with the next wave of results from the Beijing 2008 weightlifters, producing a further 15 positives(see below), which when combined with the 10 earlier positives from Beijing, includes most of the Beijing medalists. The testing of all the Beijing samples is still ongoing, and once complete will immediately be followed by a full retesting of all the London weightlifting dope samples.

The results are clearly catastrophic for the sport - and it will be very interesting to see what this new testing procedure throws up if the IOC elects to expand the retesting to the other sports at those games!

PASHAYEV, Nizami (AZE) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Oxandrolone, Stanozolol
KULESHA, Iryna (BLR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone
NOVIKAVA, Nastassia (BLR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
RYBAKOU, Andrei (BLR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
CAO, Lei (CHN) – GHRP-2 (S2. Hormones and related substances)
CHEN, Xiexia (CHN) – GHRP-2 (S2. Hormones and related substances)
LIU, Chunhong (CHN) – Sibutramine (S6. Stimulants), GHRP-2 (S2. Hormones and related substances)
GRABOVETSKAYA, Mariya (KAZ) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Oxandrolone, Stanozolol
MANEZA, Maya (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents)
NEKRASSOVA, Irina (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents)
SEDOV, Vladimir (KAZ) – Stanozolol (S1.1 Anabolic agents)
AKKAEV, Khadzhimurat (RUS) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone
LAPIKOV, Dmitry (RUS) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone
DAVYDOVA, Natalya (UKR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone
KOROBKA, Olha (UKR) – Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone


The retest results proved of little surprise to many familiar with the sport - and confirmed that while drug testing is still many years behind the cheats, it has reached the level where it is starting to prove more effective through retrospective testing.

The retesting caught the biggest name by far in the sport of olympic weightlifting, Kazakhstan 'superstar' Ilya Ilyin!, who failed not one but two retrospective olympic drug retests, Bejing 2008 and London 2012 !!!! - the red hot Rio 2016 favourite, double Olympic Champion, triple World Champion and multiple world record holder, who is undefeated in all competition since the age of 7, was provisionally banned for a year by the IWF. He was in good company, all four of his fellow Kazakhstan gold medal winners and world record holders from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 also produced positive retests and were provisionally banned.

Predictably, weightlifters from Belarus, Azerbaijan and Russia, also produced three or more positive tests from the Olympic re-tests - these Nations will join Bulgaria(banned 4 times as a Nation in the last 20 years) as banned from Rio. With 3 positives results from this latest batch of retests, China is now also facing a minimum of a one year country ban.

How powerful are anabolic steroids? Check out 10st 12lb Bulgarian weightlifter Galabin Boevski, the ex Olympic & World Champion and World Record holder finishing off a heavy training session with some 250kg squats, without the use of a belt or knee wraps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xozRc6I8pBU

Galabin was subsequently banned for life after a second positive test, although not before easily winning Gold at the Sydney Olympics, where he set a new C&J world record - a commentator remarked at the time " never has setting a new WR been made to look so easy".

Likewise, Ilya iiyin making an improvement on his own 105Kg Class Clean & Jerk WR look routine!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXqJN1PyD0E

 

[jens_attacks]

Yes they caught all the superstars of the sport lolololol

Politics 4 ever.

 

[The Hitch]

Re: Olympic Games - 2008 & 2012 Doping Retest Result Disaste

Bit of an overdramatic headline there..
They basically scapegoated a few weightlifters.

That said, the idea that athletes may have beaten doping tests at the "cleanest games ever", will be uncomfortable reading for certain people.

 

[burning]

I don't see a disaster at all, nothing to see here

 

[Catwhoorg]

I also don't see a disaster.

This first serious round of retrospective testing has shown that it is a useful tool to have in the box.

It now needs to be used widely, openly and without discrimination and to catch and out cheats no matter where they are from, or which country they represent. We may not have stopped them cheating their way to the podium, but we can sure "taint their legacy" and make sure people know how they got there.

Weightlifting specifically has been under threat at the Olympics due to the rampant drug abuse, this could finally be the push that drives it out of the Olympic family.

 

[sniper]

Imo it would be harsh to take weighlifting out of the olympic program.
There is little evidence that pro-weightlifters dope more than, say, pro-cyclists.
Weightlifting's main problem is that the sport doesn't have any mediatic appeal, so it has no (or a relatively weak) lobby within the IOC, and hence there are no scruples within the IOC (or its lapdog WADA) to get positive tests from weightlifters.

 

[Nellyspania]

Re:

I also don't see a disaster.

This first serious round of retrospective testing has shown that it is a useful tool to have in the box.

It now needs to be used widely, openly and without discrimination and to catch and out cheats no matter where they are from, or which country they represent. We may not have stopped them cheating their way to the podium, but we can sure "taint their legacy" and make sure people know how they got there.

Weightlifting specifically has been under threat at the Olympics due to the rampant drug abuse, this could finally be the push that drives it out of the Olympic family.

This makes a lot of sense but all I see is that lots of lifters have pushed the glow-time time limit and got caught out by more sensitive testing. All that will happen is that the OOC roiding will continue but they will give themselves a longer clearing period before events.

 

[Lyon]

Finally PROOF that only weightlifters and eastern-europeans dope! PROOF that westerners don't need drugs to WIN! You clinic people should bow your heads in SHAME! Not ONE drug user in cycling, swimming or t&f! NONE! Your world must be shattered by now...

 

[Tienus]

Looks like they are now going to release the names of the non russian track and field athletes that got caught in the retesting.
http://www.skysports.com/olympics/news/15234/10561281/cuban-beijing-medalist-stripped-of-silver-over-doping

So far there are 98 positives after two waves of testing and there are two more waves to come.
https://www.olympic.org/news/second-wave-of-reanalysis-reveals-banned-substances-in-45-athletes-from-beijing-and-london

Would be nice if the IOC would pubish a complete list of names.

 

[movingtarget]

Olympic podiums rearranged again

http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgoRgkJiUqVN2ZmlNU9ejOyqNsV1hchRZ9qIoDxog1rhCawc3BwBrnkVARrqsUlOGl/hL+O+fFTcWiFlQE4S49Ddnr6DHwvnH1zgqwDJEhs+2Jr1wVte201W7VxZCEEHeWFBy87TfisNU=&campaign_id=129&instance_id=86753&segment_id=98558&user_id=12d98412e3bcc0522f6cfbf4c21c54e6&regi_id=42685115

 

[Norks74]

Re:

Olympic podiums rearranged again

http://p.nytimes.com/email/re?location=4z5Q7LhI+KVBjmEgFdYACPLKh239P3pgoRgkJiUqVN2ZmlNU9ejOyqNsV1hchRZ9qIoDxog1rhCawc3BwBrnkVARrqsUlOGl/hL+O+fFTcWiFlQE4S49Ddnr6DHwvnH1zgqwDJEhs+2Jr1wVte201W7VxZCEEHeWFBy87TfisNU=&campaign_id=129&instance_id=86753&segment_id=98558&user_id=12d98412e3bcc0522f6cfbf4c21c54e6&regi_id=42685115

"New testing methods have increased the period of time during which long-familiar drugs can be detected in the body.

“Science progresses every day,” Dr. Rabin said. “Just over the past probably five years, the sensitivity of the equipment progressed by a factor of about 100. You see what was impossible to see before."

Rarely are doping violations found during the Games. At the London Games, the Olympic lab found only eight possible violations, a fraction of the dozens more exposed this year."

 

[yaco]

Realistically you need evidence that medallists from all sports are retested - It also shows the folly of the IOC handing down medals to the next finisher - It's simple - No new medals should be presented - Can't expect any better from an incompetent organisation.

 

[jahn]

The problem is that the steroid-heavy, fast twitch, sports are the only ones this applies to. There's a very good reason why it's almost never endurance athletes that get popped since EPO has a half-life of four hours while anabolic steroids is many orders of magnitude longer.

It's no wonder only the shady as *** countries touch olympic weightlifting.

 

[Nomad]

Re:

The problem is that the steroid-heavy, fast twitch, sports are the only ones this applies to. There's a very good reason why it's almost never endurance athletes that get popped since EPO has a half-life of four hours while anabolic steroids is many orders of magnitude longer.

It's no wonder only the shady as **** countries touch olympic weightlifting.

A significant number of endurance athletes, particulary distance runners, are using anabolic steroids. There's some info that it's being combined with EPO or blood doping for a synergistic effect.

In London, the 800m women's Gold medalist, Savinova, is alleged to have used Oxandrolone (Anavar...also known as "Ox") 20 days out from competition. The Bronze medalist, Poistogova, has allegedly said she used a combination of EPO & Oxandrolone in preparation for the Games (Savinova out-kicked and dropped Silver medalist Semenya in the final 150m). It looks like their retested samples are negative, and though no action has been taken on their medals as of yet, WADA is calling for a lifetime ban for both.

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-10/russian-athletes-at-the-centre-of-doping-scandal/6928426

There's also World-renowned distance coach Jama Aden (coach of several World class runners & one World record holder) who was found with a large cache of EPO & steriods at a training camp in Spain last June. All of his athletes at the site tested negative, and the case is still under investigation.

And when talking steriods and distance runners, the Kenyans might be pushing for #1. They've had 41 doping positives over the last several years. The majority of the positives are for the steriod - Norandrosterone. My guess would be that they're using lower dosages for strength, recovery & it's anti-catabolic effects for their brutal 120+ mpw training and extensive racing year round (even the biomechanically blessed Kenyans are human after all). Additionally, Kenya & Ethiopia are currently not part of the ABP (no WADA-accredited labs in the area to conduct the blood tests), so they have a free run at blood doping, while everyone else is subjected to the ABP restrictions.