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Olympic champ charged

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 on Monday it charged Rahimov and Dumitru Captari of Romania with 鈥渁n anti-doping rule violation for 鈥楿rine Substitution鈥 which would have occurred over a period of time in 2016.鈥 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鈥檚 77-kilogram class. Captari competed in the same event. Rahimov鈥檚 performance was doubted even at the time. He served a two-year ban from 2013-15 in a doping case while competing for Azerbaijan and only returned to represent Kazakhstan a few months before the Olympics.


 

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