IOC confims 2012 Olympic silver medalist Kudukhov’s (RUS) doping case not pursued due to his death
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by Gary Abbott, USA Wrestling
The IOC, in a press release on October 27, has confirmed a report from the Russian Wrestling Federation that 2012 Olympic silver medalist Besik Kudukhov of Russia would not lose his medal at 60 kg in freestyle wrestling due to a positive doping retest.
Kudukhov was killed in a car crash in 2013. Because he was not alive to go through the formal process of retesting and the resulting disciplinary proceeding, his case was not pursued.
According to the decision published by the IOC today, when Kudukhov’s sample was reviewed, “it showed the presence of the metabolites of a Prohibited Substance: dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).”
A three-person Disciplinary Commission was formed to pursue this case, which discovered that Kudukhov had died. According to the report, “the B-Sample of the Athlete has neither been opened nor analysed.”
Because of his death, the decision noted that “the process normally followed starting with the notification of the AAF can no longer be followed” and that disciplinary proceedings “cannot be conducted against a deceased person.”
The IOC decision did comment that this result was “unsatisfactory,” with the final concluding paragraph:
“The Disciplinary Commission observes that the situation is unsatisfactory as it implies that Olympic results which would probably have had to be reviewed will remain uncorrected. However, this is the unavoidable consequence of the fact that the proceedings in which the existence of an anti-doping violation would have been established or not, can no longer be conducted.”
The U.S. entry at 60 kg in freestyle at the London Games was Coleman Scott, who won a bronze medal and did not compete against Kudukhov. The athlete who won a bronze medal on Kudukhov’s side of the bracket was Yogeshwar Dutt of India, who will not have his medal result changed. Dutt had publically suggested that the IOC not change his medal result to a silver medal because of Kudukhov’s death and its impact on his family. There was no mention of Dutt in the IOC decision.
In the same announcement, the IOC announced eight failed anti-doping tests against eight athletes from the 2012 London Games, none which were wrestlers.
THE FULL KUDUKHOV DECISION IS AVAILABLE HERE
Kudukhov was killed in a car crash in 2013. Because he was not alive to go through the formal process of retesting and the resulting disciplinary proceeding, his case was not pursued.
According to the decision published by the IOC today, when Kudukhov’s sample was reviewed, “it showed the presence of the metabolites of a Prohibited Substance: dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).”
A three-person Disciplinary Commission was formed to pursue this case, which discovered that Kudukhov had died. According to the report, “the B-Sample of the Athlete has neither been opened nor analysed.”
Because of his death, the decision noted that “the process normally followed starting with the notification of the AAF can no longer be followed” and that disciplinary proceedings “cannot be conducted against a deceased person.”
The IOC decision did comment that this result was “unsatisfactory,” with the final concluding paragraph:
“The Disciplinary Commission observes that the situation is unsatisfactory as it implies that Olympic results which would probably have had to be reviewed will remain uncorrected. However, this is the unavoidable consequence of the fact that the proceedings in which the existence of an anti-doping violation would have been established or not, can no longer be conducted.”
The U.S. entry at 60 kg in freestyle at the London Games was Coleman Scott, who won a bronze medal and did not compete against Kudukhov. The athlete who won a bronze medal on Kudukhov’s side of the bracket was Yogeshwar Dutt of India, who will not have his medal result changed. Dutt had publically suggested that the IOC not change his medal result to a silver medal because of Kudukhov’s death and its impact on his family. There was no mention of Dutt in the IOC decision.
In the same announcement, the IOC announced eight failed anti-doping tests against eight athletes from the 2012 London Games, none which were wrestlers.
THE FULL KUDUKHOV DECISION IS AVAILABLE HERE
