Two more weightlifters banned
NZPA-Reuter Seoul Two more weightlifters were thrown out of the Seoul Olympics yesterday for failing dope tests. The International Olympic Committee (1.0. C. announced that the Hungarian Kalman Csengeri, fourth in the middleweight (75kg) class, and Spain’s Fernando Mariaca, thirteenth in the lightweight (67.5 kg
category, had been disqualified. i Tests showed Csengeri used stanozolol, a musclebuilding anabolic steroid. The Spaniard had taken pemoline, a banned amphetamine stimulant, the 1.0. C. said. The disqualifications widened the doping scandal at the 1988 Games with six athletes now banned since the Olym-
pics began on September 17. At the Los Angeles Games four years ago, 11 athletes were caught for doping. Two Bulgarian weightlifting gold medallists, the bantamweight, Mitko Grablev and the lightweight, Angel Guenchev, were stripped of their titles after failing dope tests.
Guenchev’s four world marks were scrubbed and Bulgaria withdrew its entire weightlifting squad in disgrace. The 1.0. C. said lax supervision by the Spanish medical team was partly to blame for Mariaca’s violation of doping rules and issued a strong warning to Spain’s team doctors.
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