Former leaders of the International Weightlifting Federation have been suspended for life

The cases of Ajan, who led the IWF for twenty years before being forced to resign in April 2020, and Vlad, a former vice president of the organization, were submitted to the CAS in December 2021 by the International Testing Agency (ITA), then of over a year of excitement for world weightlifting.

The jurisdiction’s anti-doping chamber banned them for life, effective Thursday, for their involvement on manipulating the doping control process and their complicity in anti-doping rule violations involving some weightlifters in the several years since 2012indicates CAS.

Given the seriousness of the anti -doping rule violations and the length of time they were committed, the Sole Arbitrator determined that life disqualification was the appropriate penalty.explanation of the supreme court of the world of sports, which will later publish detailed sentences.

The 83-year-old Hungarian and the 58-year-old Romanian, former Olympic champion at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics are at the heart of a widespread doping and corruption scandal.

The ITA, to which the IWF granted their anti-doping program, seized 146 suspected cases during 2009-2019he recalled in a separate press release, before returning to the paper conspiracy and forgery former head of international bodies as well as of national federations.

The exact cases and evidenceto be detailed when the CAS awards are published, include hiding, delaying and blocking the management of the results of some athletes who violated anti-doping regulations for them to participate in high profile sporting events such as the Olympics, as well as in conspiracy to avoid potential fines and suspensions.said ITA.

Weightlifting remains under the close scrutiny of the International Olympic Committee and its maintenance in the program of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, while the discipline represents more than a quarter of doping cases in Olympic history, is not still guaranteed.