Thailand’s doping scandal weightlifting coach is charged and suspended

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Liu Ning, the coach of the Thailand women's national team that lost three world titles in a doping scandal in 2018 was a keynote speaker at this coaching seminar in the same year ©Asian Weightlifting Federation

 

By Brian Oliver

 

The coach of the Thailand women’s weightlifting team that lost three world titles in a doping scandal in 2018 has been charged with a doping offence and provisionally suspended.

 

Liu Ning, from China, was national women’s team coach at the time and has been blamed for Thailand’s nine positive tests at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships.

 

Liu is said to have administered a prohibited substance, knowingly or unknowingly, via a massage gel he used to relieve athletes’ muscle injuries.

 

Full story: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1105646/thai-women-weightlifting-coach-suspended

 

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[bluesofa]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

weightlifting coach is charged and suspended

Too good to miss:

[realfunster]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Liu is said to have administered a prohibited substance, knowingly or unknowingly, via a massage gel he used to relieve athletes’ muscle injuries.

 

Convenient that this explanation absolves the athletes of any responsibility and limits damage to a single rogue coach.

 

I wonder what they were expecting when they recruited a Chinese weightlifting coach...

[mikebell]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

administered a prohibited substance, knowingly or unknowingly, via a massage gel

I've had to say NO to this substance at a number of massage establishments!

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Liu Ning, from China, was national women’s team coach at the time and has been blamed for Thailand’s nine positive tests at the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships.

They still came away with a record !!

[Bob12345]

1 hour ago, realfunster said:

 

Convenient that this explanation absolves the athletes of any responsibility and limits damage to a single rogue coach.

That it absolves the athletes is not so strange, whole parts of the east-german and russian teams were using doping for decades without knowing it: if your coach tells you to take some pills or some gels you do it (these are often kids who know little to nothing about drugs and surely wont question their coach). The question is more how one single coach would go completely unchecked: isn't there a sports commission overseeing him and monitoring blood values during the year? Or an assistant coach who reports back to his superiors? Or were they all blinded by the success the guy was booking?

[Benmart]

4 hours ago, hotchilli said:

They still came away with a record !!

Perhaps an arrest record if the conduct was criminal in nature.