IOC sanctions Gulcan Mingir over Olympic doping

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The International Olympic Committee(IOC) has sanctioned Turkey athlete, Gulcan Mingir for failing anti-doping test. Gulcan Mingir, 30 competed in the women’s 3000m steeplechase event at the Olympic Games London 2012 and came 27th in the event.

Gulcan Mingir was sanctioned when samples collected from her during the games tested for the prohibited substance, namely dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turabinol).

The IOC Disciplinary Commission, comprising Messrs Denis Oswald (Chair), Juan Antonio Samaranch and Ingmar De Vos
found Gulcan Mingir to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012 (presence of prohibited substances or their metabolites or markers in the athlete’s bodily specimen), and consequently disqualified from the events in which she participated upon the occasion of the 2012 Olympic Games, namely, the women’s 3000m steeplechase event.

The IOC requested World Athletics to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.

The National Olympic Committee of Turkey shall ensure full implementation of this decision with immediate effect.

This action is part of the IOC’s efforts to protect clean athletes and the integrity of the competition. The IOC has been storing samples from the Olympic Games since Athens 2004, and has reanalysed them systematically, adding that the fight against doping is a top priority for the IOC, which has established a zero-tolerance policy to combat cheating and to make anyone responsible for using or providing doping products accountable.