Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Nijat Rahimov, a gold medallist at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, is one of the first two weightlifters ever to be charged with a doping offence for allegedly swapping urine samples.
The alleged offences took place over a period of time in 2016 according to the International Testing Agency (ITA), the body that has laid the charge.
Based on evidence from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and its own findings, the ITA has also charged Dumitru Captari of Romania - who competed alongside Rahimov in the under-77 kilograms event in Rio de Janeiro - with swapping his urine sample.
Both men are provisionally suspended after being charged under article 2.2 of the International Weightlifting Federation s (IWF) anti-doping policy.
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