Doping, Senior European Weightlifting Championship, no longer in Albania

22/01/2018 19:36

As if the recent doping case wasn’t enough for the Albanian weightlifting sport, which could leave our country away from international activities for a long time, Albania also lost the chance to organize an elite tour such as the European Championship.

The European Weightlifting Federation, impacted by the resignation of President Elez Gjoza and the positive testing of Champion Romela Begaj, decided to not consider Albania for the tour that will be held after two months.

Full declaration: “Problem of 2018 Senior EWC organization. Unfortunately Executive Board of Albanian WF resigned because of doping problem and the Albanian WF cannot organize next Senior EWC at the end of March.

It is unexpected and very serious problem for EWF and EWF member federations.

For solution, EWF has two options. One of them is to find new host country and second option is to postpone the organization in order to give more time to new host country for preparations.

Our first and foremost priority is to organize the competition on time decided before as 26th March-1st April 2018.

Now EWF negotiates with some member federations to decide new host country.”

 

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