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“During the examination of the cases of I. Kačinskas and Ž. Stanulis, it was established that the coach prescribed a prohibited method to athletes, – 15 minutes said Rūta Banytė, a representative of the Lithuanian Anti-Doping Agency. “It was determined by the testimony of the athletes and the support staff.”
Two members of the Lithuanian weightlifting team Ž.Stanulis and I.Kačinskas were disqualified last year for two years due to the use of an unauthorized method in Klaipeda in 2018: athletes received drops in violation of the rules: the therapy of infusion should not exceed 100 milliliters in 12 hours, it must be documented, which was not the case.
AFP / Scanpix photo / Žygimantas Stanulis 2018 Won silver in the European Championship.
In turn, the mistakes of the European vice-champion Ž. Stanulis and I. Kačinskas were established during the investigation into the case of the former president of the Lithuanian Athletics Federation and national team coach Bronislovas Vyšniauskas, accused by Klaipėda officials of storing a large amount of prohibited substances for athletes.
Coaches have more responsibility
B.Vyšniauskas received a record sentence.
Until now, the biggest punishment in the history of Lithuanian sports: the eight-year disqualification was imposed on Živileas Balčiūnaitė in 2016 and in 2019 on A.Vyšniauskas heavyweight athlete Aurimas Didžbalis. Both athletes, who were sentenced to eight years, had violated doping rules twice.
B.Vyšniauskas is punished by the Lithuanian Anti-Doping Agency for the first time, but immediately severely.
“He is a coach and he, like support staff, has higher requirements than athletes,” said R. Banytė. – Coaches can be disqualified for the rest of their lives.
We take into account aggravating circumstances: he is a highly qualified coach who has worked for a long time, and his seven trained athletes have been disqualified for using prohibited substances. “
A long series of scandals followed.
B.Vyšniauskas, 73, has been the coach of the Lithuanian weightlifting team for the past two decades, and the president of the federation for the past decade.
B.Vyšniauskas, who replaced former LRT Director General Audrius Siaurusevičius as President of the Lithuanian Athletics Federation almost a decade ago, was re-elected to the second term in 2017.
In January 2018, the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee announced B.Vyšniauskas as an honorary member, adding another title to the coach’s collection, although there were already suspicions of doping on him.
Julius Kalinskas photo / 15min / Bronius Vyšniauskas
Doping scandals have haunted a small weightlifting community for more than two decades.
In 1997, at the start of Ramūnas Vyšniauskas’ career, a particularly high amount of the methandienone metabolite was found in his body during a doping test. His coach and father B.Vyšniauskas later said it was the black job of insidious rivals.
2012 were Aurimas Didžbalis and dehydrochloromethyltestosterone. This hard-to-find material found by doping controllers was found on the body of a strong man during the European Championship in Turkey, where Dijbal was second. The athlete, who later lost his Olympic ticket, explained that he did not know how doping had occurred, popular enough among deceptive weight lifters. Unofficial version of his coach B.Vyšniauskas – someone from the rivals.
2015 – R.Vyšniauskas and the same dehydrochloromethyltestosterone. Only this time there were no foreign competitors, because the former Olympian was reviewed in Klaipeda. B.Vyšniauskas later stated that this case is a bluff and a conspiracy of people who want to get angry, because their son had already finished his career. In fact, a few days before the inspection, the weightlifter told Lietuvos Rytas television how he was preparing to raise the bar in the European Championship. But then he was visited by specialists from the Lithuanian Anti-Doping Agency, and after his visit, R.Vyšniauskas publicly announced the end of his career.
Photo by Lukas Balandis / 15min / Aurimas Didžbalis and Ramūnas Vyšniauskas
R.Vyšniauskas often had a leg and various problems before the start of the most important competitions: there was poisoning after the World Championship in the Dominican Republic in 2006, body temperature increased in 2009. planetary championships in South Korea, 2008 Olympic Games and The 2010 In the world championship, the bar was not raised due to injuries. before the lithuanian championship he was angry.
In the past decade, two years later, lesser-known Lithuanian weightlifters Dovilė Blažiūnaitė and Mantas Mickeliūnas have also been disqualified. In addition, Rimantas Martišauskas, a disqualified ball pusher for clomiphene, also trained in Klaipeda together with weight lifters.
In 2017, Domantas Kmieliauskas, representative of the youth team, was caught in doping. The Lithuanian Weightlifting Federation announced that the athlete himself, trained by B.Vyšniauskas, admitted to using drostanolone and norandrosterone. own initiative. He was disqualified for four years.
The most threatening news resonated in early 2018, when 2016 Olympic winner A. Dijbal was suspended for the second time. It happened in December 2017 at the World Cup in the USA. USA, where he got second place, found banned substances. Researchers at the Anti-Doping Laboratory in Montreal, Canada discovered SARM-22, a selective androgen receptor modulator.
A.Didžbalis, his coach B.Vyšniauskas and R.Vyšniauskas, who deal with the nutrition of the athlete, once again claimed that no one used doping and an error occurred.
However, A. Dijbalis received an eight-year disqualification.
In 2018, after the raid and searches by Klaipėda officials, allegations of possession of a large number of prohibited substances fell not only on B.Vyšniauskas, but also on his son R.Vyšniauskas and cycling coach Panevėžys Antanas. Jakimavičius.
J. Andriejauskaitė / 15min photo / Ramūnas and Bronius Vyšniauskai and A.Jakimavičius
In April this year, the Lithuanian Anti-Doping Agency fined Ž.Stanulis and I.Kačinskas two years later because they used “drip” methods.
Due to the concealment of his misconduct and incorrect information, last week the three-year disqualification was awarded to Vytautas Stašinskas, former secretary-general of the Lithuanian Athletics Federation.
Last week, V. Stašinskas and B. Vyšniauskas were quietly removed from the position of the leaders of the Lithuanian Weightlifting Federation without prior notice.
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