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NOT CLEAN AND RATED: Powerlifting doping scandals are piling up. The image is from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro just over four years ago. Photo: Mike Groll / TT NEWS AGENCY
As many as 18 athletes from six countries are suspected of using “doubles” to take pure tests, and many probably use growth hormones that are nearly impossible to detect – weightlifting doping scandals will never end.
This comes as a result of another investigation of the sport, which is in serious danger of being expelled from the Olympics. This time, the international anti-doping agency Wada is behind the disappointing cheating report. According to Inside The Games, “Operation Arrow”, which consists of four parts, has now been brought to the table after a three-year investigation.
One of them specifically deals with the use of “urine substitutes in relation to detoxification.”
– Wada I & I (intelligence and investigation) found evidence that “doubles” have been used to pretend to be practitioners in connection with the detoxification process, to ensure that pure urine was presented in the form of fraud, Wada Thursday said.
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Wada claims to have discovered the fraud with the help of confidential sources and analytics experts. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has (again) expressed concern about the way weightlifting is handled. Previously, the sport came close to being banned at the Olympics, the threat is now considered real, at the Paris Olympics in four years.
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Last week, three different people ran the IWF International Weightlifting Federation in the form of the office of “president”. Recent doping cases, 18 in number, related to “double urine”, will now be investigated and prosecuted by the International Bureau of Controls (ITA). ITA leads the cleanup and anti-doping work at the IWF.
He has traditionally turned out to be a true doping nut, including former IWF President Tamas Ajan from Hungary.
GOOD COMPANY: Tamas Ajan and IOC President Thomas Bach during the weightlifting final at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro four years ago. Ajan was elected an honorary member of the IOC after being a member since 2000. Photo: LARRY W. SMITH / EPA
He is accused of widespread corruption during his 44-year career as General Secretary and President (2000-2020) of the International Weightlifting Federation. McLaren’s famous report revealed that it hid 40 doping cases under the rug. It later emerged that another 130 doping tests have been “hidden”.
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It is also said that around NOK 50 million changed hands in the period 2012 to 2016, mainly from “Russian interests” to “high-level members of the IWF”. A group of Russian weightlifters – and athletes from the “Eastern Bloc” – have subsequently been deprived of medals and places they “won” at the Olympics and other international championships.
The IWF has sanctioned and fined a number, but there has been a big difference between the sum of the fines imposed and the sum collected. Tens of millions, in fact, according to Inside The Games. Of the hundreds of doping cases that have been prosecuted by the IWF, only six have been linked to the use of growth hormones. A seventh case is pending.
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Wada claims that more than 30 current and former practitioners have been identified as doping suspects in an investigative section called “Operation Extra.” Additionally, 15 current and former coaches are involved, according to this investigation, as well as “more than” 10 current officials. They must have “facilitated” the doping of practitioners “under their supervision.”
