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Kurash silver medallist becomes fifth Asian Games athlete to fail drugs test

Uzbek cyclist Aleksey Fomovskiy and Philippine mountain biker Ariana Evangelista have also been suspended after testing positive, the ITA said on Wednesday.

Fomovskiy, 22, finished fifth in the men’s omnium track cycling final on Sep 28 and sixth in the road time trial race on Tuesday.

Evangelista, 27, was the last to finish the women’s mountain bike race on Sep 25.

Fomovskiy returned an “adverse analytical finding for anabolic androgenic steroids” during an in-competition test performed on the day of the omnium final, the ITA said.

Evangelista had returned adverse findings for erythropoietin (EPO) from blood and urine samples collected in an out-of-competition test on Sep 24.

Saudi Arabian distance runner Yousef Mohammed Alasiri and Afghanistan boxer Mohammad Khaibar Nooristani have also been suspended for failed tests, although unlike the kurash fighter and the cyclists, they did not compete in Hangzhou.

All five who have failed drugs tests can request analysis of their B-samples and the cases have been referred to the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) for adjudication under Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) anti-doping rules, the ITA said.

The ITA runs testing at the Games.

Neither OCA nor the Hangzhou Games organising committee were able to provide an immediate comment.

Source: CNA

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