Mohammad Samim Faizad tested positive for an anabolic steroid. His removal follows another judoka doping case at the Paris Olympics.
ADVERTISEMENTAn Afghanistan judoka tested positive at the Paris Olympics for the anabolic steroid, the same used by sprinter Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Mohammad Samim Faizad gave a sample at his opening bout that tested positive for stanozolol, the International Testing Agency said on Saturday.
He had lost his only bout in the men’s 81-kilogram class to Austria’s Wachid Borchashvili on Tuesday. The 21-year-old athlete has now been provisionally disqualified from the Olympics.
«The athlete has been informed of the case and has been provisionally suspended until the resolution of the matter in line with the World Anti-Doping Code and the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Olympic Games Paris 2024» said the agency.
«This means that the athlete is prevented from competing, training, coaching, or participating in any activity, during the Olympic Summer Games Paris 2024.»
He was the only athlete actually based in Afghanistan on its team of three men and three women in Paris.
The first athlete to be suspended from the Paris Summer Games over doping was Iraq’s Sajjad Sehen, another judoka.
He tested positive on 23 July for the banned anabolic steroids methandienone and boldenone, following a preliminary test match.
