Mirabai Chanu Stands Chance To Get Gold

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What has happened?

Pride of India, Tokyo Olympics silver-medalist Mirabai Chanu stands a chance to be awarded the gold in the 49kg women’s weightlifting competition.

A post on Twitter by US citizen, Kyle Bass, whose designation reads Chief Investment Officer Hayman Capital Management has gone viral,
Where he says that the gold medal winner in women’s 49kg Zhuhui Hou will be tested by anti-doping authorities at the Olympics.

Some media reports said, there is an adverse analytical finding, meaning there will be tests to figure out if there is anything adverse in the first sample.
The anti-doping authorities will check and see if Zhihu had given an undertaking for medicines before the Games.

Soon after the news, many netizens started assuming that Hou had already taken drug and concluded that it will suspend the existing gold-medal winner and Mirabai’s silver would be updated to a gold medal.
However, the truth is that close to 5,000 athletes are being tested at the Olympics randomly and both in and out-of-competition samples are being collected.
And chances of each of them testing positive is highly unlikely.
So we cannot simply assume that Hou will be tested positive, even though she can get tested.
However, if her tests returns as positive, then Mirbai would be India’s first-ever woman Olympic gold medallist.

The IOC has delegated responsibility for all Therapeutic Use Exemptions (TUE) applications to the International Testing Agency (ITA).
This means that the ITA is now fully responsible for the TUE application process for all athletes that fall under the IOC’s jurisdiction.

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