Kazakh weightlifter Nijat Rahimov, who won gold in the 77kg at the 2016 Rio Olympics, has been banned from the sport for eight years for a doping offence and will be stripped of his medal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Tuesday.
"In January 2021, further to a WADA investigation into irregularities in sample collection in the sport of weightlifting, the International Testing Agency , served a Notice of Charge on Nijat Rahimov," CAS said in a statement.