4-time Olympic Cyclist Positive For Doping In Retests Of Samples From 2016 Rio Olympics – News18

AIGLE, Switzerland: Four-time Olympic bicycle owner Christos Volikákis examined constructive for doping in retests of samples from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, the International Cycling Union stated on Friday.

Volikákis received medals for Greece in monitor biking at world and European championships however not the Olympics the place he was chosen at every version from Beijing in 2008 by way of the Tokyo Games in 2021.

The UCI stated Volikákis examined constructive for the anabolic agent often known as ligandrol in a pattern taken on Aug. 16, 2016. In Rio he positioned twelfth within the keirin.

Volikákis has been provisionally suspended, the UCI stated. He faces being disqualified from the Olympics and banned in a later disciplinary case by the biking governing physique.

Samples from every Olympics are saved for as much as 10 years and are routinely reanalyzed as a part of a program ordered by the International Olympic Committee to catch athletes nonetheless energetic forward of an upcoming video games.

“The reanalysis program enables further testing to be carried out based on updated information, notably thanks to investigations, or when detection methods evolve as a result of advances in scientific technology,” the UCI stated.

Volikákis, now 35, is among the many first constructive circumstances from the Rio retests.

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