Taiwan’s Lin Tzu-chi, a former weightlifting world record holder, has been banned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
The tribunal said in a statement on Thursday that Lin has been banned for eight years for a doping offence.
Lin, who broke two world records in the women’s 63 kg category at the 2014 Asian Games in South Korea, was initially banned for two years by Taiwan’s Olympic Committee.
This was after a positive test for steroids in June 2016.
However, CAS said it had accepted an appeal from the World Anti-Doping Agency which wanted the ban increased as it was the 30-year-old Lin’s second doping violation.
“The sole arbitrator found that (Lin Tzu Chi) had indeed committed a second anti-doping rule violation and determined that she should receive an eight-year ban,” CAS said in a statement.
Lin set her world records in the clean and jerk and overall lift at the Asian Games in Incheon.
She hoisted 145 kg with her final lift, adding 2 kg to the previous record, which gave her an overall total of 261 kg and another world record.
China’s Deng Wei overhauled those records at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where Lin, who also tested positive for a banned substance in 2010, withdrew hours before the event.
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