Swiss Arbitration Decisions

The Appellant, Alexei Lovchev, is an Russian weightlifter at the international level, who participated in the 2015 Weightlifting World Championship in Houston, USA, as a member of the Russian team. He won the gold medal and set two world records. In November 2015, the Appellant underwent a doping control that resulted in an Adverse Analytical Finding, (AAF) and showed the presence of the prohibited substance Ipamorelin in the Appellant’s sample in an extremely low concentration of 0.1 ng/ml.