As if the difficult moment in terms of results is not enough, with Albania currently not having any weightlifter within the Olympic norm for "Paris 2024", the red and black barbell continues to be tainted by doping scandals.
In the latest announcement of the International Testing Agency (ITA), Daniel Godelli has tested positive for banned substances in the test done on April 19, 2023, during this period the 31-year-old was part of the national team in the European Championship that was held in Yerevan at that time. of Armenia.
The announcement states that Godelli tested positive for the substance enobosarm, a drug used in bodybuilding as an alternative to anabolic steroids.
The sportsman from Beijing himself has admitted this in a status on social networks, emphasizing that he did not use it for doping and he will clarify this in test B of the analysis.
The substance found in the body of the Albanian athlete is SARM, according to the international testing agency ITA. It is prohibited and considered as doping since 2008 by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), while the first case of this type of substance was in 2013, the Russian cyclist Nikita Novikov.
This is the second case of positivity, if officially confirmed for Godelli, after the one in 2014 where he was declared world champion together with Romela Begajn, where both tested positive.