Belarus Medalists positive? [yes, says IOC] [no, says CAS]

[Swoosher]

Can any Russian speakers please confirm the content of the article on the front page of the Allsport website (http://www.allsport.ru) ??

Some people have pointed me there indicating that the silver and bronze medalists from Beijing have tested positve

I Hope so..would mean Koji gets Bronze

Thanks

Edit - Mens Hammer Throw

[croflash]

Can't translate the Russian version, but it's also on the official site of the DLV now. They are usually hesitant to post such news, however if they do, you can almost be sure that this is true.

[nevetsllim]

Then Devyatovskiy would get a lifetime ban because it'll be his second positive drugs test.

[EPelle]

Yep. Affirmative on both counts - the positive and the life-time ban.

[Swoosher]

Yep. Affirmative on both counts - the positive and the life-time ban.

thank you

It constantly amazes me that Olympic level athletes (especially medalists) would be silly enough to test positive actually at the games themselves. I guess you get the dose/cycle mixed up, but surely you give yourself a decent buffer zone...

[Powell]

It's strange the testing took such a long time. Blonska's positive was announced just a couple of days after the competition, but the HT final was 17 days ago.

[tandfman]

The substance was apparently testosterone (according to the DLV site). That may have made the analysis a little more time-consuming.

[Brettboy]

This totally discredits BLR's performances IMO, the same way Sobeleva and co's did with Russia.

[knockout]

Delighted by this news.... and completely agree with Brettboy, I certainly suspect its a state run regime!!!

[knockout]

Yep. Affirmative on both counts - the positive and the life-time ban.

thank you

It constantly amazes me that Olympic level athletes (especially medalists) would be silly enough to test positive actually at the games themselves. I guess you get the dose/cycle mixed up, but surely you give yourself a decent buffer zone...

Swoosher i am no expert at all but i guess the drop in performance when you come off the cycle is fairly rapid, which is why they cut it so fine (and why the hungarians were using the fake penis)!!!!

[lapsus]

Both are coached by Litvinov, according to the Russian article.

[nevetsllim]

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but the Belarussian SP no.3 Yulia Leantsiuk tested positive and so did their no.1 steeplechaser.

[mark]

It does not help the Belorussian throwing team as a whole that they behaved so unusually in the buildup to the games, arriving in Beijing the PM before qualifying for the men's shot the following AM.

Makes me even happier that VV took the gold!

[mark]

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but the Belarussian SP no.3 Yulia Leantsiuk tested positive and so did their no.1 steeplechaser.

That would be the one who was throwing 17.00 consistently indoors and then peppered the 20m line outdoors in Belarus. Hmmmmm.

[lapsus]

The two names affects recent championship results (well, unofficially anyway) in similar way as the Russian 1500 meter runners did. It's basically a joke:

Osaka 2007
1 375 Ivan Tsikhan [BELARUS] BLR 83.63 (WL)
2 993 Primož Kozmus [SLOVENIA] SLO 82.29 .
3 1015 Libor Charfreitag [SLOVAK REPUBLIC] SVK 81.60 (SB)
4 370 Vadim Devyatovskiy [BELARUS] BLR 81.57 .
5 672 Krisztián Pars [HUNGARY] HUN 80.93

Göteborg 2006
1 168 TIKHON Ivan BLR 76 3 81.11 SB
2 304 KARJALAINEN Olli-Pekka FIN 80 7 80.84 SB
3 162 DEVYATOVSKI Vadim BLR 77 9 80.76
4 449 ESSER Markus GER 80 11 79.19
5 747 ZIÓLKOWSKI Szymon POL 76 6 78.97

Too bad Karjalainen's 82 meter last round effort was a foul...

Helsinki 2005
1 79 Ivan Tsikhan BLR 83.89 (CR)
2 71 Vadim Devyatovskiy BLR 82.60 .
3 744 Szymon Ziólkowski POL 79.35 (SB)
4 378 Markus Esser GER 79.16 .
5 287 Olli-Pekka Karjalainen FIN 78.77 .

Athens 2004
DISQ (Drugs) Adrian Annus, Hungary 83.19m
1. Koji Murofushi, Japan 82.91m SB
2. Ivan Tsikhan, Belarus 79.81m
3. Esref Apak, Turkey 79.51m
4. Vadim Devyatovskiy, Belarus 78.82m
5. Krisztián Pars, Hungary 78.73m

Paris 2003
1 141 Ivan Tsikhan BLR 83.05 .
2 637 Adrián Annus HUN 80.36 .
3 774 Koji Murofushi JPN 80.12 .
4 1358 Andriy Skvaruk UKR 79.68 .
5 1234 Primož Kozmus SLO 79.68

Annus won in 2002, too...