{"id":314031,"date":"2018-06-11T14:30:57","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T21:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=314031"},"modified":"2018-06-11T14:30:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T21:30:57","slug":"egyptian-bulgarian-swimmers-handed-4-year-doping-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/egyptian-bulgarian-swimmers-handed-4-year-doping-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian, Bulgarian Swimmers Handed 4 Year Doping Bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two four-year doping bans were recently handed to Egyptian swimmer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fina.org\/news\/doping-offence-mohamed-waleed-saad-el-mozayen-egy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mohamed Waleed Saad El Mozayen<\/strong><\/a> and Bulgarian swimmer\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fina.org\/news\/doping-case-dobromira-ivanova-bul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dobromira Ivanova<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by the Egyptian Swimming Federation and the Bulgarian Olympic Committee respectively. For both athletes, this was their first doping violation.<\/p>\n<p>Waleed, a 21-year-old swimmer from Egypt, was found to have testosterone in his urine after he was tested while at a competition on April 3, 2017. The testosterone found in his urine violates Class S1.1B Endogenous Anabolic Androgenous Steroids of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fina.org\/content\/prohibited-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FINA&#8217;s Prohibited List<\/a>. The Disciplinary Committee of the Egyptian Swimming Federation ruled that he would be ineligible for competition for four years beginning July 26, 2017 and ending on July 25, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanova was also handed a retroactive four-year doping sanction, beginning February 15, 2018 and ending February 14, 2022, by the Bulgarian Olympic Committee. At a testing on December 20, 2017, Ivanova tested positive for the substance D-methamphetamine, amphetamine, and a metabolite of D-methamphetamine (Class S6.a).<\/p>\n<p>The Bulgarian athlete is most known as a butterfly specialist, holding both the short and long course meter national records for Bulgaria in the 50 and 100 fly.<\/p>\n<p><em>FINA contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two four-year doping bans were recently handed to Egyptian swimmer\u00a0Mohamed Waleed Saad El Mozayen and Bulgarian swimmer\u00a0Dobromira Ivanova\u00a0by the Egyptian Swimming Federation and the Bulgarian Olympic Committee respectively. 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