Iraq’s 28-year-old judo participant Sajjad Sehen has examined constructive for 2 anabolic steroids (metandienone and boldenone) in a pattern taken on Tuesday. It was the primary doping case on the Paris Olympics 2024 and was introduced hours earlier than the opening ceremony began.
The Worldwide Take a look at Company (ITA) which oversees the games-time anti-doping program mentioned the judoka is suspended and a disciplinary case is prosecuted. “Because of this the athlete is prevented from competing, coaching, teaching, or collaborating in any exercise through the Olympic Video games,” the company mentioned.
The athlete, who can request a check of a B pattern, has been banned from any exercise through the Paris Olympics. Ought to the second pattern additionally check constructive for the prohibited substances, he might face a ban of as much as 4 years.
Sehen was because of compete within the males’s 81 kilogram class, beginning Tuesday within the spherical of 32 towards an opponent from Uzbekistan. The ITA’s anti-doping program on the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 caught six athletes within the official video games interval, from 6,200 samples taken.
China doping row to lift pressure at Paris pool
A doping row involving Chinese language athletes could show a tinderbox on the Olympic swimming meet the place america face the most important problem to their reign in many years from Saturday.
A few of the world’s finest within the sport have criticised anti-doping authorities and raised considerations in regards to the competitors’s integrity following revelations in April that 23 Chinese language swimmers had been allowed to compete on the Tokyo Video games regardless of testing constructive for the banned coronary heart treatment trimetazidine (TMZ).
The World Anti-Doping Company accepted the findings of a Chinese language investigation that the check outcomes had been because of contamination from a lodge kitchen the crew had been staying at.
With company inputs