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IOC 2016 IOC vs Khadzhimurat Akkaev (Beijing Olympiad)
November 10, 2016
Mr Khadzhimurat Akkaev is a Russian Athlete competing in the Men’s 105 kg weightlifting event at the London 2012 Olympic Games. The Athlete also competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
In 2016, the IOC decided to perform further analyses on certain samples collected during the 2012 Olympic Games. These additional analyses were performed with analytical methods which were not available in 2012.
In December 2016 the International Olympic Committee reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after his 2012 sample tested positive for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol). After notification the Athlete failed to respond.
With the positive test results the Commission concludes that the Athlete has been duly notified and has committed an anti-doping rule violation consistent with the intentional use of a prohibited substances specifically ingested to deliberately improve performance. The fact that the metabolites of a doping substance, which is a “classical” doping substance, was found, supports this consideration.
The Disciplinary Commission also notes that previously the Athlete’s samples provided at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games tested positive for the prohibited substance turinibol. On 10 November 2016 the IOC Disciplinary Commission sanctioned the Athlete for this anti-doping violation.
Therefore IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 15 March 2017 that the Athlete Khadzhimurat Akkaev:
1.) is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012 (presence, and/or use, of Prohibited Substances or its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen),
2.) is disqualified from the Men’s 105 kg weightlifting event in which he was registered upon the occasion of the Olympic Games London 2012,
3.) The IWF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.
4.) This decision enters into force immediately.
