Weightlifting 2021 Discussion Thread

[intoronto 4,202]

20 minutes ago, MHSN said:

it seems they saved doping samples from other competitions as well!

list of doped weightlifters from 2012 European Champs in re-testing, some of these guys were already caught for other doping violations.

 

https://iwf.sport/2021/11/18/the-ita-asserts-13-rule-violations-against-weightlifters-following-a-re-analysis-campaign-of-2012-samples/

 

• Hysen Pulaku (Albania)
• Hanna Batsiushka (Belarus)
• Dimitris Minasidis (Cyprus)
• Irakli Turmanidze (Georgia)
• Rauli Tsirekidze (Georgia)
• Cristina Iovu (Moldova)
• Florin Ionut Croitoru (Romania)
• Razvan Constantin Martin (Romania)
• Oxana Slivenko (Russia)
• Gokhan Kilic (Turkey)
• Bunyami Sezer (Turkey)
• Hatice Yilmaz (Turkey)
• Fatih Baydar (Turkey)

Does this mean and results after this event is also disqualified?

[MHSN 3,180]

13 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Does this mean and results after this event is also disqualified?

maybe but I'm not sure. they didn't disqualify all of Ilya Ilyin's results even though he was caught twice both in 2008 and 2012. but they did that for some other weightlifters , so I don't know how it works

[Federer91 2,135]

In shocking news today, Bozhidar Andreev has announced his retirement from the sport at 24 and just weeks before the Worlds. There is no conflict, he is not injured, he said, he just doesn't want to train anymore... This guy always had a problem in his head, so i'm not that surprised. Weightlifting is not the sport, which attracts people with many brain cells.

[George_D 873]

Weightlifting heads for trouble again as IWF calls off elections

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1115994/iwf-calls-off-elections

[phelps 6,805]

I'm sorry for the sport, but it's really time to get rid of those cheaters once and forever...