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File picture of Mohammad Samim Faizad© X (Twitter)
Mohammad Samim Faizad, one among solely six Afghans on the Paris Olympics, denied deliberately doping on Saturday after he was provisionally suspended having failed a check for a banned steroid. The 21-year-old judoka, who was crushed 11-0 within the French capital on Tuesday within the males’s -81kg class, had informed AFP on the eve of the Video games that competing on the Olympics was a dream come true. He was provisionally suspended on Friday after a check “returned an adversarial analytical discovering for the non-specified substance stanozolol metabolites”, the Worldwide Testing Company stated.
Faizad spoke out in a video shared by Afghan media on Saturday.
He stated he was injured 4 months in the past whereas at a coaching camp in Uzbekistan and was underneath remedy, suggesting that was why his check was constructive.
“I am an athlete, I am not a medical skilled. How ought to I do know if a drugs has steroids in it or would produce a constructive doping check?” he stated.
The pattern from Faizad was collected by the ITA on the day he misplaced to Austria’s Wachid Borchashvili in his opening bout.
There are three males and three girls representing Afghanistan on the Video games.
Of the six, Olympic debutant Faizad was the one one who skilled for the Video games inside his Taliban-controlled homeland.
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