čtvrtek 23. srpna 2012

London Olympics: Athletes provisionally suspended



Weightlifting (5 cases)
Fatih Baydar, Substance or method not known, Turkey (M)
Ibrahim Arat, Substance or method not known, Turkey (M)
Pulaku Hysen, Stanozolol, Albania (Tested during the 2012 London Olympic Summer Games) (M)
Marzena Karpinska, Substance or method not known, Poland (F)
Aurimas Didzbalis, Substance or method not known, Lithuania (M)

Track and Field (14 cases)
Mariem Alaoui Selsouli, EPO, Morocco (F)
Dimitris Chondrokoukis, Stanozolol, Greece (M)
Abderrahim Goumri, Use or attempted use of a prohibited substance or method, Morocco (Suspended for four years by the IAAF) (M)
Iríni Kokkinaríou, Use or attempted use of a prohibited substance or method, Greece (Suspended for two years by the IAAF) (F)
Tameka Williams, substance or method not known, St Kitts And Nevis. (F)
Ivan Tsikhan, substance or method not known, Belarus (According to online newspapers this suspension has to do with samples collected in 2004 - where the athlete had high levels of testosterone) (M)
Marina Marghieva, substance or method not known, Moldova (F)
Natalia Artyk, substance or method not known, Moldova (F)
Amine Laalou, Furosemide, Morocco (F)
Diego Palomeque Echavarria, Testosterone, Colombia (M) (confirmed by IOC)
Alex Schwazer, EPO, Italia (M) - (IOC Taskforce Out-Of-Competition Test)
Hassan Hirt, EPO, France (M) - (Out-of-competition Test prior to Olympic Games)
Ghfran Almouhamad, Methylhexaneamine, Syria (F) - (Tested after 400m hurdles event)
Nadzeya Ostapchuk, Metenolone, Belarus (F) - (Tested BEFORE the event, but at the London Olympic Games - first medalist that have tested positive for doping.)

Gymnastics (1 case)
Luiza Galiulina, Furosemide, Uzbekistan (Tested during the 2012 London Olympic Summer Games) (F)
Galiulina was the third athlete to be disqualified from the Olympic Games in London.

Cycling (1 case) 
Victoria Baranova, Testosterone, Russia (F) (confirmed by IOC)

Rowing (1 case)
Kissya Cataldo, EPO, Brazil (F) (Confirmed by the Brazilian Olympic Committee)

Judo (1 case)
Nicholas Delpopolo, 11-nor-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol-9-carboxylic acid, USA (M)
(This is the first in-competition sanction during the Olympic Games in London.)

Total:
23 provisional suspensions, 7 disqualified by the IOC.

(Bold means the official information from IOC - athletes that has been disqualified from the Olympic Games by the IOC. Other athletes has been suspended by their National Olympic Committees or International Sport Federation)

Statistics:
- Up to 6250 samples will be tested during Games time – more than any other Games 
- The Anti-Doping workforce at the Games will be over 1,000 people
- Up to 1 in 2 athletes will be tested at the Olympic Games including every Olympic medalist
- The laboratory will operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
- Up to 400 samples will be tested every day 
- The shortest test turnaround time will be 24hrs (some tests will take longer)
- The laboratory is 4400 square metres in size – the same size as 7 tennis courts
- A team of more than 150 anti-doping scientists will carry out the testing during Games time, led by Professor David Cowan from the Drug Control Centre at King’s College London. 
- Over 240 prohibited substances will be tested for