Just one gold medalist from Tokyo Olympic Games has been banned after the Games


At Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo in 2021 Randolph Ross won a gold medal on the 4x400 relay. One year later he received a three-year ban for violating the whereabout rule.

 

Ross didn’t run the final at the Games in Japan, but he was part of the squad who took the American team all the way to the final, according to a story from Associated Press.

In 2022 the sprinter missed three whereabout reports in 12 months. At the hearing with the Athletics Integrity Unit, the athlete provided a copy of an automatic response message which should confirm that he indeed had reported his whereabouts.

However, that e-mail response was created by the sprinter himself.

Another medalist at the Games in Japan, the Russian wrestler Zavur Uguev, had a doping sanction to his name. It was dated back to 2013 when he tested positive for furosemide resulting in a two-year long ban.

The Anti-Doping Database used the list medalists to find these medal winners.

Data source:

https://olympics.com/en/olympic-games/tokyo-2020/athletes

News sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/trackandfield/us-sprinter-randolph-ross-ban-3-years-fake-email-1.6684997