Published: Friday January 18, 2013 MYT 8:07:00 PM
Japan champion banned for doping
TOKYO: A Japanese woman weightlifter has been banned for five years for doping, an official said Friday, hours after the broadcast of an interview in which cyclist Lance Armstrong admitted he was a drug cheat.
The Japan Weightlifting Association imposed the ban on Nao Ito after she test positive for the banned substance norandrosterone, the second time that the national champion has failed a drug test.
Ito was stripped of her 58-kilogramme class title in the national championships in November, an association official said.
The weightlifter was slapped with a two-month ban after an earlier doping test revealed she had taken a prescription allergy medication which contained a banned substance, a result that stripped her of the 48-kilogramme national title which she won in 2011.
"We were very disappointed," the official said, adding that "we must take it seriously as it was a second doping violation."
Ito's ban came as Armstrong admitted for the first time that he used performance-enhancing drugs while grabbing seven Tour de France titles, after years of strident denials.
The disgraced cycling legend made the admission in a pre-recorded interview with US talk show host Oprah Winfrey. -AFP
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