According to the German broadcaster ARD, the international weightlifting Federation has covered doping practices and established a “culture of corruption”.
The international olympic Committee (IOC) ruled on Monday in “very serious and troubling” allegations against the international weightlifting Federation (IWF) regarding doping practices, in a survey of the German television channel ARD broadcast on Sunday.
According to ARD, the IWF, under the leadership of its president, historic, the Hungarian Tamas Ajan, has covered for years of doping practices and established a “culture of corruption”. In a statement, the IOC takes “note of the contents” for the report.
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The IWF is “particularly concerned by these revelations concerning a possible systematic doping programs of young athletes,” responded the international Federation in a press release, assuring that it would “investigate as quickly as possible on the issues raised in the program”.
Until 2017, of weightlifters of high-level have not been controlled on a regular basis, and some controllers, anti-doping have been offered money to manipulate the samples, ” says the journalist ARD Hajo Seppelt, the man who revealed the scandal of doping widespread in Russia. On 453 medalists of the olympic Games or world championships between 2008 and 2017, 204 had never undergone drug testing out of competition in the year of their medal.
“A culture of corruption is widespread”
Dorin Balmus, doctor of the Federation of moldova, explained in front of a hidden camera how the urine samples were manipulated, and sometimes just provided by a person other than the athlete controlled. The controllers have to be suspicious were then corrupted.
“Among a number of apparent lies, allegations unsubstantiated and rumors refuted, dating back to 2008, there seems to be new information reported in the emission that could be useful to the efforts of the IWF to promote the sport of weightlifting clean and protect the sport clean”, recognizes the international Federation in its press release.
Christian Baumgartner, the president of the German Federation interviewed by ARD, has accused the Hungarian 80-year-old Tamas Ajan, president of the IWF since 2000, having covered these frauds : “Ajan is responsible for a system that has established the doping in weightlifting and derailed for decades. A culture of corruption is widespread,” he said.
A folder closed in 2012
The IOC finally indicates you have placed in June 2017 the IWF under control in the face of the number “unacceptable,” in doping cases, before confirming his presence at the olympics-Paris 2024. The instance stresses have received in 2010 a complaint against Tamas Ajan, for “alleged financial irregularities within the IWF”.
The case had been brought before the Court of arbitration for sport (CAS), which had ruled that “neither the IOC nor the HEAP were competent to intervene in the internal accounts of an international federation”. The IOC thus had to close the file in 2012.
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But because of a change in the code of ethics and the fact that the television programme “may contain ” new elements”, the head of the IOC ethics “will ask ARD to provide him with all documentation in its possession in order to deal properly with this case.”
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the record of The IWF should also be on the menu of a meeting of the IOC executive Board is scheduled Wednesday to Lausanne, on the eve of the opening of the Youth olympic Games and before a session of the IOC scheduled for Friday.
