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IWF Hands Out 1 Year Bans for Countries with 3+ Positives from Retests (China, Russia, KAZ, AZE …)

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(Original post from Oct 20, 2017, see updates below)

Meanwhile in Bucharest …

The IWF announced that today that the executive board unanimously decided that countries with produced three or more doping violations from the 2008 and 2012 retests (see timeline here) will be suspended for one year.

Countries Affected: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.

The EB is now drafting the reasoned decisions which are scheduled to be sent to the MFs and to take effect in mid-October.

This means that athletes from these countries would not be eligible to start at world championships 2017.

On the other hand it also implies that the mentioned countries would be allowed to lift in Lima 2018 which is a qualifying event for the 2020 Olympic Games. So none of the countries would lose points.

Update: What does this mean for Europeans 2018 Turkey? No turks competing in on home turf?

Update: Europeans 2018 will likely be moved to a different location.

Update 20.10.2017: IWF finalized the decisions. via

In case an MF decides to unconditionally accept the set of criteria it automatically involves the acceptance of being monitored by an Independent Monitoring Group which will mainly consist of outside-the-sport anti-doping experts.

The Group will carefully assess the situation of each MF which undertakes to comply with the criteria and create an action plan to address these issues one by one.

The monitoring will continue throughout the entire suspension period.

If fully satisfied, the Group at its sole discretion may decide to grant a Partial Conditional Reinstatement of the MF’s right to participate at IWF Events. The earliest time of such reinstatement depends on the gravity of the MF’s violation of the Policy rendered by the Board on 22 June (i.e.: number and severity of re-analysis cases). The reinstatement will not affect any other rights of the MF suspended as per the Board’s decision – these will remain suspended even in case a conditional lift is granted.

The last part is interesting. It could open the doors for countries with less positives, like China to compete at Asian Games 2018.

Update 13.06.2018: IWF ends country bans for Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan early.

 

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Comments

  1. zerocool says

    we can safely assume these nations won’t be at the worlds in a november.
    which leaves the podium for which countries exactly ?
    i have north Korea / colombia (hello Yeison Lopez, wanna be 1st senior this year also? now’s your chance) / Iran

    • Anonyymi says

      Also USA, Latvia, Lithuania, Vietnam, Thailand, Japan, Georgia, Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Uzbekistan are well capable of getting medals. Every one of these countries has at least one or two good lifters, who would normally be in the lead of b-group or in lower section of the a-group with few exceptions.

  2. grobpote says

    Woww! It’s one helluva castration! Well even like this the Worlds could be very interesting. I am gonna miss Simon Martirosyan for sure and others of course but the mentioned countries have been winning for decades anyway. Little breathing space will be most welcomed by Egypt Thai and so on I am sure.

  4. Oliver says

    So if all these countries are still able to qualify for Tokyo 2020, won’t this be seen as a slap on the wrist by entrenched IWF leadership and won’t we be back to the same place pre 2016 with regards to doping, giving the IOC reason to remove weightlifting from Paris 2024 or later (the IOC is only including weightlifting on a conditional basis for 2024).

  5. Dan says

    i’m surprised by how little iran and n korea get caught. quite a few of their athletes have crazy level numbers

    • Sina. S says

      Lasha Talakhadze 217. 258 473

      Behdad Salimi. 216 255 465

      Saied alihosseini 206 245 451. At 20 yr old

  9. GHM says

    I am not sure Iranian team can get visa either. Perhaps that was the reason Sohrab Moradi went to 2nd rate Asian meet to get the WR.

    • PJ says

      The Iran team is in Dubai UAE right now doing the formal things to get the visa, for now they are on schedule to get their visa on time.
      Moradi didn’t participate in any competition after Rio , he wanted to try something before the worlds.

  11. No Chill says

    Let’s not kid ourselves…they are doing this because they have to behave so the IOC will not kick weightlifting out. And who gives a hoot about WWC in US anyway? They already held it last year.

    • Jon says

      Right on the money – there are constant threats by the corrupt IOC to remove weightlifting from the Olympics due to recurring drug-related offenses. This is the primary reason it will not consider powerlifting as an event.

  12. Charlie says

    It’s politics. Just ask Jason Genova and Big Lenny. Seriously, half joking and half not JOKING, about the politics part. This is the part that just destroys the sport, similar to track, like a witch hunt.

  14. Victor says

    Ehab should drop down to 69 just to whoop Cumming’s butt. Leave 77 to Lopez. At least then we don’t get any 135+185=320 69kg “champ.”

  15. Johle says

    wouldn’t Luis Javier Mosquera and Kim Myong Hyok be the highest contender for 69 if they are injury free? Although regarding Kim I wouldn’t know how the US Ban of PRK affects the atheletes.

  16. Jerker Karlsson says

    Who knows, maybe Clarence Kenndy shows up all of the sudden. 😛

    This will be interesting to watch, and a few American lifters will have a real shot at medals on home ground. It could be a great event, we will see.

    • Victor says

      Yeah, could be a “great” event where dozens of athletes who have never been found guilty of any doping violation serve a ban so B-group US athletes could have a chance to medal. You know what would make it greater? Put a bio-hazard quarantine on the hotel that foreign athletes get put in. That way, they can’t make it to the venue so US weightlifters can sweep the classes!! Historical victory! Gonna be great! LOL

      • Jerker Karlsson says

        I get your point, and it’s a good one, I won’t argue that.

        The competition can still be as exciting as if all the best were there though. People can lift at their best, set personal records and we can see tight competitions between athletes. A soccer game of two non-elite teams can put up a much greater game to watch than two world class teams if the latter just play defensively and nothing happens. That was my point, the competition can still be entertaining and great to watch. People that would not normally have a chance to compete for medals will have that chance now, and might really be on fire when given the opportunity. Despite the bans, I think it will be well worth watching.

          • grobpote says

            It’s not that bad – Lasha is still gonna be there 🙂 Although I am very sorry that so many stars will be absent if you take a look at it there are still plenty of strong guys eligible.
            For example: Om North K in 56 kg, Mosquera COL in 69 kg,Ehab EGY in 77 kg, Rostami Iran in 85 kg, Moradi 94kg, hopefully Nurudinov in the 105 kg and the Georgians (amongst others) in the superheavy.
            Yes it’s not the same competition but at least it won’t be the level of the shameful LA Games.

  17. zerocool says

    your speech gave me an idea :
    all nations should withdraw, and remake world championships without US :)))
    fuck the iwf

    • Victor says

      I was just messing around cus people said this gives the US an opportunity to win undeserved medals. Is there information that all these cases of Haterade were actually made by the US?