| IOC sanctions one athlete for failing anti-doping tests at London 2012 The protection of clean athletes and the fight against doping are top priorities for the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as outlined in Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC’s strategic roadmap for the future of the Olympic Movement. The IOC is currently conducting additional analyses on the samples collected from the Olympic Games London 2012. This programme, which uses the latest scientific analysis methods, aims to test samples for all the substances prohibited in 2012. The IOC has delegated the selection of samples to be reanalysed and the results management to the International Testing Agency (ITA), and the ITA thus brings forward these cases. The notification sent by the ITA to the athletes concerned when initiating proceedings gives them the choice to have their case heard before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) or before an IOC Disciplinary Commission. This choice is given as the Anti-Doping Rules (ADR) for the Olympic Games London 2012 still apply for cases that arise from the current re-analyses. In the case at hand, the athlete did not choose to go to the CAS, and the case was automatically handled by the IOC Disciplinary Commission. As part of this process, the IOC today announced that one athlete has been disqualified from the Olympic Games London 2012. The details follow. Mete BINAY, 35, of Turkey, competing in the men’s 69 kg weightlifting event at the Olympic Games London 2012, in which he ranked 6th, has been sanctioned. Re-analysis of Binay’s samples from London 2012 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substance Stanozolol. The IOC Disciplinary Commission, composed for this case of Messrs Denis Oswald (Chairman), Juan Antonio Samaranch and Ingmar De Vos, decided the following: I. The Athlete, Mete BINAY: i. is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012 (presence, and/or use, of Prohibited Substances or its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen), ii. is disqualified from the event in which he participated upon the occasion of the Olympic Games London 2012, namely the men’s 69 kg weightlifting event, in which he ranked 6th and for which he was awarded a diploma, iii. has the diploma obtained in the men’s 69 kg weightlifting event withdrawn and is ordered to return the same. II. The IWF is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence. III. The Turkish Olympic Committee shall ensure full implementation of this decision. IV. The Turkish Olympic Committee shall notably secure the return to the IOC, as soon as possible, of the diploma awarded in connection with the men’s 69 kg weightlifting event to the Athlete. V. The decision enters into force immediately. The full decision is available here. The reanalysis programme for the samples from the Olympic Games London 2012 will continue until the end of the statute of limitations period is reached in August 2020*. You can find at the following links the list of anti-doping rule violations during or after the Olympic Games and the detailed results of the IOC reanalysis programme from 2004 to today. This is part of the IOC’s efforts to protect clean athletes and the integrity of the competition. The IOC has been storing samples from the Olympic Games since Athens 2004, and has reanalysed them systematically. The fight against doping is a top priority for the IOC, which has established a zero-tolerance policy to combat cheating and to make anyone responsible for using or providing doping products accountable. * Please note that, for legal reasons, the IOC will not give detailed information on possible cases. This would follow in due course. ### The International Olympic Committee is a not-for-profit independent international organisation made up of volunteers, which is committed to building a better world through sport. It redistributes more than 90 per cent of its income to the wider sporting movement, which means that every day the equivalent of 3.4 million US dollars goes to help athletes and sports organisations at all levels around the world. ### For more information, please contact the IOC Media Relations Team:
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