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1 9 - 0 7 - 2 0 0 7 Weightlifting coach gets life ban
The Age
Australian weightlifting coach Sevdalin Marinov has received a life ban from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for a second doping offence.
Marinov was sanctioned for possession of prohibited substances including testosterone and anabolic steroids, the Australian Sports Anti Doping Authority (ASADA) said in a statement.
Marinov, a three-time world champion, Olympic and Commonwealth gold medallist, had previously tested positive to steroids in Bulgaria in 1995 before coming to Australia where he was employed as the head coach of Victorian Weightlifting and the national junior coach.
ASADA Chairman Richard Ings said Marinov was the third person to be sanctioned as a result of ASADA's new powers of investigation and the first non-analytical case to be successfully brought against a coach.
Ings said the testosterone and anabolic steroids were discovered in November 2003, after Victoria Police executed a search warrant at a premises where Marinov had been residing.
During the search, three boxes of prohibited substances; Deca-Durabol, Sustanon and Ilium Stanabolic were found in Marinov's bedroom, Ings said.
ASADA alleged at the CAS hearing that Marinov had, under the anti-doping policy in force at the time, committed a doping violation of trafficking by possession.
"This CAS decision is a strong endorsement of ASADA's new investigative capability and sends a powerful message that there is no room in Australian sport for those athletes or their support persons who use or traffic in doping substances," Ings said.
Australian lifters have had a string of positive drug results in recent years with Alex Karapetyan, Sergo Chakhoyan and female lifters Corran Hocking, Jenna Myers and Camilla Fogagnolo testing positive to the stimulant benzylpiperazine (BZP).
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