Anti-doping news

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The IWF reports that sample of Mr. Valentin Hristov (AZE) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for (S1.1 Anabolic Agents) nandrolone. As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation. In any case where it is determined that the athlete did not commit an anti-doping rule violation, the relevant decision will also be published. The IWF will not make any further comment on the case until it is

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The IWF reports that sample of Mr. Un Guk Kim (PRK) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for (S4.1 Hormone and metabolic modulators) letrozole. As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation. In any case where it is determined that the athlete did not commit an anti-doping rule violation, the relevant decision will also be published. The IWF will not make any further comment on the case until it is

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The IWF reports that sample of Mr. Elkhan Aligulizada (AZE) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for (S1.1 Anabolic Agents) nandrolone. As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation. In any case where it is determined that the athlete did not commit an anti-doping rule violation, the relevant decision will also be published. The IWF will not make any further comment on the case until it is

IWF ADC Meeting

The annual meeting of the IWF Anti-Doping Commission took place on the 9th December 2015 in Lausanne Switzerland. The Chairman of the ADC, Dr. Patrick Schamasch and its Members, Dr. Zakia Bartagi and Dr. Michael Petrou assessed all the valuable experience gained this year and thus drew the lines of the IWF’s Anti-Doping Program for 2016 and decided on several anti-doping related issues. The IWF Anti-Doping Department, Dr. Trombitás, Dr. Nyirfa and Ms. Exhenry also participated at the meeting. The IWF will continue its robust fight against doping using its intelligence network and the best analytical methods and will focus more on quality than quantity. In the upcoming Olympic year the IWF will put special attention on the Anti-Doping related Education and will try its utmost in order to protect the clean athletes. 2015 brought several changes into the IWF Anti-Doping Program due to the new WADA Code and the fully compliant IWF Anti-Doping Policy and thanks to the application of the entourage registration and the new public disclosure guidelines the Program become even more effective. The IWF Anti-Doping Commission would like to specifically call everyone’s attention again to a new prohibited substance called MILDRONATE (Meldonium) which was in the WADA Monitoring Program in 2015 and will be prohibited from the 1st January 2016. You may find further information about the substance by clicking

CAS timeline BUL case

As announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in a media release dated 8 December 2015, the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation has filed an appeal at CAS against a decision issued by the International Weightlifting Federation on 9 November 2015 in which it was fined USD 500,000 and banned from entering the next ensuing Youth Olympic/Olympic Games after 11 of its athletes were found to have committed anti-doping rule violations. The Parties have agreed on a procedural calendar in order to have this arbitration adjudicated in an expedited manner. The CAS is expected to issue its decision by end of January 2016. Until then, the qualifications for Rio 2016 Olympic Games will not become

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The IWF reports that sample of Mr. Ghenadie Dudoglo (MDA) has returned an Adverse Analytical Finding for (S1.1 Anabolic Agents) dehydrochlormethyltestosterone metabolite. As a consequence, the athlete is provisionally suspended in view of a potential anti-doping rule violation. In any case where it is determined that the athlete did not commit an anti-doping rule violation, the relevant decision will also be