3 Rio athletes sanctioned for doping
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THREE athletes — a Chinese swimmer, a Polish weightlifter and a Bulgarian steeplechaser — were expelled or suspended yesterday from the Rio Olympics for doping, the first athletes sanctioned after failing drug tests at the games.
Weightlifter Tomasz Zielinksi and steeplechaser Silvia Danekova were kicked out of the games after testing positive for banned substances, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said.
Swimmer Chen Xinyi accepted a “provisional suspension” after testing positive for a diuretic. The CAS said her case will continue, with a final decision to be issued before the end of the games.
The 18-year-old Chen’s Olympics were over anyway. She finished fourth last Sunday in the 100m butterfly and pulled out before the 50m freestyle, her final event of the Games.
These were the first decisions issued by the CAS, which is handling doping cases at the Olympics for the first time. The International Olympic Committee handed over responsibility to the CAS in a bid to make the process more independent.
Chen tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide, which is listed by the World Anti-Doping Agency as a “specified substance.” Athletes testing positive for those substances can receive reduced penalties because of the possibility the drug was taken inadvertently.
“The athlete accepted a provisional suspension on a voluntary basis,” the CAS said of Chen. “As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended from competing at the Olympic Games.
“The procedure will continue and the CAS (anti-doping division) will issue a final award before the end of the Games.”
Zielinski, who was to compete in the 94kg division, tested positive for the steroid 19-Norandrosterone, while Danekova tested positive for EPO, a blood-boosting hormone that aids stamina and endurance.
Both were excluded from the Games and stripped of their Olympic accreditation. Their cases were handed over to their international federations for possible further sanctions. Both could face two-year bans.
Danekova, 33, was not considered a medal contender in the steeplechase.
Zielinski has already been sent home from Rio. His brother Tomasz, a gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, also tested positive for the steroid nandrolone on July 1 in Poland and is likely to be sent home from Rio.
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