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IOC 2016 IOC vs Intigam Zairov (Beijing Olympiad)
August 29, 2016
Mr. Intigam Zairov is an Azerbaijani Athlete competing in the Men’s 94 kg weightlifting event at the London 2012 Olympic Games. He also competed at the Beijing 2008 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 his 2012 A and B samples tested positive for the prohibited substance dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).
After notification the Athlete submitted that he did not accept the test results, he waived his right to be heard and he did not file a statement in his defence.
Previously the Athlete’s samples provided at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games also tested positive for the prohibited substance turinabol. On 29 august 2016 the IOC Disciplinary Commission sanctioned the Athlete for this anti-doping violation.
With the positive test results the Commission concludes that the Athlete has committed an anti-doping rule violation consistent with the intentional use of a prohibited substance specifically ingested to deliberately improve performance. The fact that the metabolites of a doping substance, which is a “classical” doping substance, was found, supports this consideration.
Therefore the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides on 10 January 2017 that the Athlete Intigam Zairov:
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 Men’s 94 kg weightlifting event in which he participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games London 2012,
3.) has the diploma obtained in the Men’s 94 kg weightlifting event withdrawn and is order to return the same.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 National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic shall ensure full implementation of this decision.
6.) The National Olympic Committee of the Azerbaijani Republic shall notably secure the return to the IOC, as soon as possible, of the diploma awarded in connection with the Men’s 94 kg weightlifting event to the Athlete.
7.) This decision enters into force immediately.
