Nijat Rahimov
FILE - Nijat Rahimov, of Kazakhstan, acknowledges the applause after receiving his gold medal for the men's 77kg weightlifting competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 10, 2016. Rahimov has been stripped of his 2016 title for doping and banned for eight years, it was announced Tuesday, March 22 2022. The Court of Arbitration for Sport says the Kazakh lifter was guilty of “four urine substitutions.” (AP Photo/Mike Groll, file)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2016 file photo, Nijat Rahimov, of Kazakhstan, sets a world record with a lift of 214kg during the men's 77kg weightlifting competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rahimov has been charged with swapping his urine samples in a doping case that could threaten his gold medal. The International Testing Agency says it charged Rahimov 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 span the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Rahimov took gold with a world record lift in the men’s 77-kilogram class. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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