Doping-Kazakh weightlifter Rahimov banned for eight years, stripped of Rio gold

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Kazakh weightlifter Nijat Rahimov, who won gold in the 77kg at the 2016 Rio Olympics, has been banned from the sport for eight years for a doping offence and will be stripped of his medal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said on Tuesday.Rahimov, 28, was found guilty of four urine substitutions, w

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Kazakh weightlifter Nijat Rahimov, who won gold in the 77kg at the 2016 Rio Olympics, has been banned from the sport for eight years for a doping offence and will be stripped of his medal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Tuesday.

"In January 2021, further to a WADA investigation into irregularities in sample collection in the sport of weightlifting, the International Testing Agency , served a Notice of Charge on Nijat Rahimov," CAS said in a statement.

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