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Afghan Judoka at Paris Olympics suspended after failing doping test
The sample was collected by the ITA on the day Faizad lost to Austria’s Wachid Borchashvili in his opening bout, AFP reported.
Mohammad Samim Faizad, a judoka from Afghanistan at the Paris Olympics, was provisionally suspended on Friday after failing a doping test for a banned steroid.
The International Testing Agency said: “The ITA reports that a sample collected from judoka Mohammad Samim Faizad from Afghanistan has returned an adverse analytical finding for the non-specified substance stanozolol metabolites.”
The sample was collected by the ITA on the day Faizad lost to Austria’s Wachid Borchashvili in his opening bout, AFP reported.
“The athlete has been informed of the case and has been provisionally suspended until the resolution of the matter,” the ITA said, adding the athlete has the right to request analysis of the B-sample.
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