Congolese Athlete Accused of Doping at the Paris Olympics
Dominique Lasconi Mulamba has failed a test for anabolic steroids, according to the ITA. He has been provisionally suspended from the 2024 Paris Olympics but is appealing the sentence. This image from his Instagram account shows him running an earlier race.
Mulamba was tested on Aug. 4, one day after being eliminated in the competition’s first round, according to a statement issued by the International Testing Agency, a non-profit anti-doping organization that implements drug testing procedures for worldwide sports federations.
Before that, Mulamba, who served as a flag bearer during the opening ceremony, managed to qualify for the main round by securing third place in the preliminary round with a time of 10.54, while in the first round, he ran even faster, 10.53, but that wasn’t enough to qualify for the semifinals.
Positive Testing Result for Anabolic Steroids
Then, on Aug. 9, his result came positive for stanozolol metabolite– an anabolic steroid– used to mimic the effects of testosterone, which improves overall physical abilities. This drug is one of the most frequently detected drugs in anti-doping tests, according to Biomedical Reports, a scientific journal that can be accessed through the National Library of Medicine. It’s the same steroid Ben Johnson tested positive for at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, according to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
Subsequently, Mulamba was disqualified, and his results from the Paris Olympics were provisionally erased.
Mulamba awaits further sanctions, and it is yet to be seen whether he will be suspended for a longer period.
Provisional Suspension 2024 Olympics Athletes
This case isn’t the first one to hit the 2024 Olympics. Before Mulamba, ITA suspended two judo athletes, Sajjad Ghanim Sehen Sehen from Iraq and Mohammad Samim Faizad from Afghanistan, along with Cynthia Temitayo Ogunsemilore, a boxer from Nigeria, according to the list of doping violations at the 2024 Olympics. These sanctions are currently provisional and will not be final until all appeals and arbitration are exhausted.
Before the start of the Olympics, the topic of doping was among the hottest ones thanks to the clash between the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) regarding the status of 23 swimmers from China who all tested positive for trimetazidine, a performance-enhancing drug, in the build-up for the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.
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