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GENERAL SPORTS INTEGRITY
ANTI-DOPING CYCLING UK 1 POWERLIFTING Para-cyclist Erin McBride was banned from all sport for three years for using the prohibited substance ostarine, following an out-of-competition test on March 3.
AUSTRALIA
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Ash Goulevitch had his original sanction doubled to 8 years after being found to have breached the initial period of ineligibility.
WEIGHTLIFTING AZERBAIJAN 2 TENNIS USA 5 Former world champion Boyanka Kostova tested positive for stanozolol on her way to winning the European championship 59kg title in April. As this was her second offence, she was banned for eight years.
Former world 19 Varvara Lepchenko has been provisionally suspended after returning a positive test which contained metabolites of adrafinil and/or modafinil at a tournament in Budapest.
ATHLETICS KENYA 3 ATHLETICS RUSSIA 6 Kenya’s Eliud Ngetich received a two-year ban after testing positive for nandrolone in an out-of-competition test. USADA suspended half of the two-year sanction due to the substantial assistance that Ngetich provided.
Russian high jumper Danil Lysenko has apologised to “innocent” compatriots impacted by the fallout of his doping case and reiterated his claim that senior Russian Athletics Federation officials were to blame. Lysenko is serving a four-year ban for anti-doping rule breaches, including whereabouts failures and tampering with the results management process.
CYCLING USA 7 Matt McWhirter, 49, received a four-year ban after testing positive for an anabolic agent from an in-competition drug test at an event he won.
WRESTLING RUSSIA 8 Bilyal Makhov, jointly upgraded to the gold medal in the 120kg event at the London Olympics after both finalists tested positive for banned substances in retests of their samples, has been banned for four years for doping. Makhov’s suspension has been backdated to the date of his failed test in January 2020. 26
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