Olympian weightlifter faces potential suspension, loss of medal after doping violation

Aurimas Didzbalis, who won a bronze medal successful the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics successful weightlifting, tested affirmative for doping, the International Testing Agency said connected Thursday.

Didzbalis, 34, is 1 of 7 athletes who participated successful the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and tested affirmative aft a caller investigation of their samples. Samples taken astatine the Olympic Games are stored and tin beryllium retested for up to 10 years aft their lawsuit to let for caller developments successful doping science.

"The bulk of these affirmative re-analysis results are chiefly owed to method advances," the ITA said, with much delicate detection of steroid traces.

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Aurimas Didzbalis gestures during the men’s last 94 kg contention of the 2017 Weightlifting European Championships successful Split, Croatia, connected April 7, 2017.   (Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Didzbalis, on with 3 of the different athletes with affirmative tests, tested affirmative for the anabolic steroid danabol. Sprinter Ivet Lalova of Bulgaria, who placed eighth successful the women’s 200 meters final, tested affirmative for ostarine, which has akin effects to steroids.

Didzbalis, pursuing the retest, faces disqualification by the International Olympic Committee and could beryllium stripped of his medal. The fourth-placed lifter was Sarat Sumpradit of Thailand.

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Adam Maligov, Aurimas Didzbalis and Dmytro Chumak basal connected signifier for the medal ceremonial of the men’s last 94 kg contention astatine the 2017 Weightlifting European Championships successful Split, Croatia. April 5, 2017. (STRINGER/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

The 34-year-old’s affirmative trial is not the archetypal clip helium has tested affirmative for steroids. Didzbalis besides tested affirmative for doping up of the 2012 London Olympics and astatine the 2017 World Championships in Anaheim, California.

"The athletes volition besides beryllium provisionally suspended by their respective planetary federation," the ITA said.

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Aurimas Didzbalis reacts portion competing successful the men’s 94 kg weightlifting lawsuit astatine the Rio 2016 Olympic Games successful Rio de Janeiro. Aug. 13, 2016. (GOH CHAI HIN/AFP via Getty Images)

The caller Olympic doping cases included 4 successful weightlifting and 1 each successful judo, wrestling and way and field.

Two of the athletes came from Egypt and 1 each from Belarus, Olympic big Brazil, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Uzbekistan.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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