Ms. Sibel Şimşek is a Turkish Athlete competing the 63kg weightlifting event at the London 2012 Olympic Games.
In 2016, the IOC decided to perform further analyses on certain samples collected during the 2012 Olympic Games. These additional analyses were performed with analytical methods which were not available in 2012.
In July 2016 the International Olympic Committee reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after her 2012 A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substances stanozolol and dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).
After notification the Athlete filed a statement in her defence and she waived her right to be heard for the IOC Disciplinary Commission.
The Athlete stated that she was unable to understand the reason why and how the reanalysis of her sample resulted in an Adverse Analytical Finding. She contended that she had never consciously used any Prohibited Substance. She asserted that she had been psychologically affected by the present proceedings as everything she had worked for was about to be unjustly ruined because of a substance that she would have never used. The Athlete finally contended that her retirement from competition should be taken into account by the Disciplinary Commission.
The Commission finds that the Athlete simply denies having used performance-enhancing substances. She however does not bring any element that could explain the presence of Prohibited Substances in her bodily sample.
With the positive test results the Commission concludes that the Athlete has committed an anti-doping rule violation consistent with the intentional use of prohibited substances specifically ingested to deliberately improve performance. The fact that the metabolites of doping substances, which are “classical” doping substances, were found, supports this consideration.
Therefore the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 10 January 2017 that the Athlete Sibel Şimşek:
1.) is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012 (presence, and/or use, of Prohibited Substances 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 participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games London 2012,
3.) has the diploma obtained in the Women’s 63 kg weightlifting event withdrawn and is order to return the same.
4.) The IWF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.
5.) The Turkish Olympic Committee shall ensure full implementation of this decision.
6.) The Turkish Olympic Committee shall notably secure the return to the IOC, as soon as possible, of the diploma awarded in connection with the Women’s 63 kg weightlifting event to the Athlete.
7.) This decision enters into force immediately.
