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IOC 2012 IOC vs Nadzeya Ostapchuk (London Olympiad)
August 12 ,2012
Ms. Nadzeya Ostapchuk is a Belarussian Athlete competing in the Women’s short put event at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. The Athlete also competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
In 2016, the IOC decided to perform further analyses on certain samples collected during the 2008 Olympic Games. These additional analyses were performed with analytical methods which were not available in 2008.
In July 2016 the International Olympic Committee reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after her 2008 A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and tamoxifen.
After notification the Athlete submitted that she did not file a statement in her defence and she waived her right to be heard for the IOC Disciplinary Commission.
The Commission concludes that the Athlete has committed an anti-doping rule violation consistent with the intentional use of prohibited substances specifically ingested to deliberately improve performance. The fact that the metabolites of dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, which is a “classical” doping substance, was found, supports this consideration. The finding of a second Prohibited Substance, i.e. tamoxifen, also supports this conclusion.
Previously the Athlete’s samples provided at the London 2012 Olympic Games tested positive for the prohibited substance metenolon. On 12 August 2012 the IOC Disciplinary Commission sanctioned the Athlete for this anti-doping violation.
Therefore the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 10 January 2017 that the Athlete, Nadzeya Ostapchuk:
1.) is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008 (presence and/or use, of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen),
2.) is disqualified from the Women’s shot put event in which she participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008,
3.) has the medal, the medallist pin and the diploma obtained in the Women’s shot put event withdrawn and is ordered to return the same.
4.) The IAAF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.
5.) The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus shall ensure full implementation of this decision.
6.) The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus shall notably secure the return to the IOC, as soon as possible, of the medal, the medallist pin and the diploma awarded in connection with the Women’s shot put event.
7.) This decision enters into force immediately.
