Iranian skier Hossein Saveh-Shemshaki has been suspended from the Beijing Olympic Video games after testing optimistic for a banned agent.
Key factors:
- Hossein Saveh-Shemshaki returned an adversarial analytical discovering for an anabolic steroid
- The Iranian was examined in Beijing on Monday, previous to competing, along with his end result reported on Wednesday
- The ITA says Shemshaki has the appropriate to enchantment and request that his B pattern be examined
Saveh-Shemshaki returned an adversarial analytical discovering for a metabolite of testosterone – an anabolic steroid — the Worldwide Testing Company (ITA) mentioned.
The 36-year-old was examined on Monday, February 7, in an out-of-competition check in Beijing, along with his end result reported on Wednesday.
The IOC mentioned in a press release that Shemshaki has been “prevented from competing… or collaborating in any exercise throughout the Olympic Winter Video games.”
One in all two athletes representing Iran, Shemshaki was Iran’s flag-bearer on the opening ceremony, a job he reprised from his final look at a Video games in Sochi.
On the Sochi Video games he completed thirty first within the slalom, his greatest ending place at an Olympics.
Shemshaki was set to match the participation report by an Iranian alpine skier by competing at his third Olympic Video games.
The ITA mentioned Shemshaki has the appropriate to enchantment and request that his B pattern be examined.
The end result follows experiences that 15-year-old Russian determine skater Kamila Valieva examined optimistic for a banned drug, having led ROC to staff gold on Monday.
The ROC declined to touch upon earlier experiences that Valieva had returned a optimistic check, however Russian journalist Vasily Konov, the deputy common producer at Russian sports activities channel Match-TV, mentioned the pattern in query had been taken two months in the past, with out citing sources.
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