In 2016, Professor Richard McLaren issued two reports about systemic doping in Russia. These reports identified a significant number of Russian athletes who were involved in, or benefitted from, the doping schemes and practices that he uncovered.
Hereafter in January 2019 the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recovered the internal database of the Moscow Laboratory (LIMS). Following investigation of allegations of organized doping practices, and in particular of the LIMS, WADA provided international federations with investigation reports on the athletes implicated in these organized doping practices.
These investigation reports revealed that a prohibited substance has been established in the 2 samples of the Athlete Maksim Sidorov. These samples were provided by the Athlete in 2012 and thereupon deliberately reported as negative by the Moscow laboratory.
As a result in July 2022 the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), on behalf of World Athletics, reported anti-doping rule violations against the Athlete for the use of the prohibited substance Oxandrolone in 2012. After notification the Athlete failed to respond to the AIU communications.
Without the Athlete's response the AIU deems that he has waived his right to a hearing, to have accepted the asserted anti-doping rule violations and the sanction rendered by the AIU. The AIU considers that there are aggravating circumstances present in this case that justifies the imposition of a more severe sanction.
Furthermore the AIU determines that the Athlete previously was sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of 1 year from 3 July 2017 until 2 July 2018. In the present case the AIU shall count the reported 2012 anti-doping rule violations as single first violation together with the 2017 first violation.
Therefore the AIU decides on 20 March 2023 to impose an additional 3 year period of ineligibility on the Athlete, starting on the date of the decision. All the Athlete's results from 15 July 2012 until 3 July 2017 are disqualified with all of the resulting consequences, including forfeiture of any medals, titles, points, prize money and prizes.
