LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic weightlifting champion Nijat Rahimov of Kazakhstan has been charged with swapping his urine samples in a doping case that could threaten his gold medal.
The International Testing Agency said late Monday it charged Rahimov and Dumitru Captari of Romania with “an anti-doping rule violation for ‘urine substitution’ which would have occurred over a period of time in 2016.”
It is unclear if the allegations include the Rio Olympics, where Rahimov won with a world-record lift in the men’s 77kg division. Captari competed in the same event.