Ms. Meline Daluzyan is an Armenian Athlete competing in the Weightlifting event at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
In 2018, the International Olympic Committee (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 2018 the International Testing Agency (ITA), on behalf of the IOC, reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after her 2012 sample tested positive for the prohibited substances Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (Turinabol) and Stanozolol.
Here the Armenian National Olympic Committee reported that the Athlete had stopped competing since 2012 and had moved out of Armenia. In January 2019 the ITA established contact with the Athlete via Facebook. After submission of the notification the Athlete failed to respond to any of the communications from the ITA and the IOC.
The IOC Disciplinary Commission finds that the Athlete’s sample establish the presence of prohibited substances and accordingly that she committed an anti-doping rule violation. The Commission holds that the finding of these substances is clearly consistent with intentional and actually carefully managed doping practices. The absence of any explanation on the part of the Athlete and refusal to participate in the proceedings only reinforces the inference that she was intentionally doping.
Therefore the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 8 May 2019 that the Athlete, Meline Daluzyan:
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 their Metabolites or Markers in the Athlete’s bodily specimen), and
2.) is disqualified from the events in which she participated upon the occasion of the 2012 Olympic Games, namely, the Women’s 69kg Weightlifting event.
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.) The National Olympic Committee of Armenia shall ensure full implementation of this decision.
5.) The decision enters into force immediately.
