According to the Finnish Sports Ethics Center, blood removal is permitted if the blood is not put back into the athlete’s body.
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PARIS. The big news of the Paris Olympic wrestling tournament on Wednesday morning was from India By Vinesh Phogat exclusion from the tournament without a final ranking.
The reason was that the Indian did not pass the weighing of the 50 kg class within the allowed time limits, but he had an extra weight of about 150 grams when the weighing time expired.
On Wednesday evening, Phogat had to take the series gold medal from the USA Sarah Hildebrandt against, but now the American’s opponent will be replaced by a Cuban who lost to Phogat in the semifinals Yuzneylis Guzman.
The weight increased by almost three kilograms
Phogat weighed 49.90 kilograms in the weigh-in before the opening day’s matches, but on Tuesday night after three matches he weighed 52.7 kilograms. His normal weight is 57 kilos.
At this point, the Indian team adopted tough measures, says Indian site Hindu.com.
The athlete spent almost the entire night between Tuesday and Wednesday taking a sauna and jogging. When that didn’t help, he had his hair cut. As a last resort, a highly questionable method was used: bloodletting.
“It is allowed”
Medical expert of the Finnish Sports Ethics Center, former top-class freestyle wrestler Pekka Rauhala says that a drastic measure fits within the framework of the anti-doping rules under one condition:
– If the blood is not put back after removal, it is allowed.
Suek’s test manager Katja Huotari confirms Rauhala’s message on a general level:
– Only if the blood is put back into the athlete, the matter could be treated as a doping violation prohibited substances and according to section M1.1 of the list of methods.
Finnish wrestlers are not known to have resorted to blood removal, which has a very negative effect on the athlete’s performance, although there has been a threat of a situation where the athlete does not pass the weigh-in.
The most famous case in recent history is Mikael Lindgren staying on the scales at the Olympic Games in Atlanta 1996.
Used in skiing at one time
When the actions of Finnish cross-country skiers and other skiers were discussed in the courtroom in the 2000s and 2010s, according to witnesses, bloodletting was used to lower the hemoglobin values manipulated with banned substances.
Too high a hemoglobin value in the pre-competition measurement resulted in a several-day start ban in practice at that time.
It is assumed that for some reason the operators at that time had not read the section in the list of prohibited methods that forbade pumping the blood back to the athlete after the hemoglobin measurement.