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Doping cases at Incheon Games

(Xinhua) Updated: 2014-10-03 20:38

INCHEON, South Korea - Following is the list of positive drugs tests at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea:

- Tajik footballer Khurshed Beknazarov tested positive for methylhexaneamine after playing the opening group match against Singapore on September 14.

- Cambodian soft tennis player Yi Sophany, 18, was expelled after a urine sample was found to contain the banned stimulant sibutramine. She was tested on September 16, before the soft tennis competition began.

- Malaysia's wushu gold medalist Tai Cheau Xuen tested positive for sibutramine on September 20, the day she won the women's nandao and nanquan all-round competition.

- Iraqi weightlifter Mohammed al Aifuri, who came seventh in the +105kg category, tested positive for steroids on September 14.

- Syrian karate athlete Nour-Aldin al-Kurdi, 19, tested positive for clenbuterol on September 25 and was disqualified before his competition had even started.

- China's women's hammer champion Zhang Wenxiu was expelled after testing positive for zeranol. The world and Olympic bronze medallist, 28, won her third straight Asiad title with a Games-record throw of 77.33 meters.

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