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IOC 2016 IOC vs Maiya Maneza (London Olympiad)
October 19, 2016
Ms. Maiya Maneza is a Kazakh Athlete competing in the Women’s 63 kg weightlifting event at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
She also competed at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
In 2016, the IOC decided to perform further analyses on certain samples collected during the 2008 Olympic Games. These additional analyses were performed with analytical methods which were not available in 2008.
In July 2016 the International Olympic Committee reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after her 2008 A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substance stanozolol.
After notification the Athlete submitted that the ISL in force at the time of the sample collection in 2008 should have been applied and that such did not allow to conduct the analysis on a split B-Sample.
The Athlete did not file a statement in her defence and waived her right to be heard for the IOC
The Disciplinary Commission observes that the Rules themselves do not specify the version of the ISL and finds that the process which led to the analytical finding was correctly conducted in application of the ISL in force at the time of the analysis.
The Commission concludes that the Athlete has committed an anti-doping rule violation consistent with intentional use of a prohibited substance specifically ingested to deliberately improve performance. The fact that the metabolite of a doping substance, which is a “classical” doping substance, was found, supports this consideration.
Previously the Athlete’s samples provided at the London 2012 Olympic Games also tested positive for the prohibited substance stanozolol. On 19 October 2016 the IOC Disciplinary Commission sanctioned the Athlete for this anti-doping violation.
Therefore the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 17 November 2016 that the Athlete, Maya Maneza:
1.) is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008 (presence and/or use, of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen),
2.) is disqualified from the Women’s 63 kg weightlifting event in which she was registered upon the occasion of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008,
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.) This decision enters into force immediately.
