A 16-year old Nigerian female weightlifter, Chika Amalaha is found to have been involved in drug scandal in the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and has been provisionally suspended from the Games. She tested positive in a doping test taken after she won gold in the women’s 53kg category, the Commonwealth Games Federation announced earlier today.
Amalaha provided an ‘A’ sample on July 25 which revealed traces of diuretics and masking agents. She will have a ‘B’ sample tested at a laboratory in London on July 30.
Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper said: “We (have) issued a formal notice of disclosure to an athlete following an adverse analytical finding as a consequence of an in-competition test.
“That athlete is Nigerian weightlifter Chika Amalaha who was tested on July 25th. That athlete has now been suspended from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.”
Amalaha snatched a best of 85kg before managing 111kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 196kg, to become the youngest Commonwealth weightlifter gold medallist. [myad]
