August 27, 2025 | 12:00am
MANILA, Philippines — Olympian weightlifter Vanessa Sarno will probably be out of the limelight for an indefinite time period.
This after the Asian champion and Southeast Asian Video games gold medalist accepted a two-year interval of ineligibility for an alleged anti-doping rule violation and being pregnant.
“She received pregnant,” Samahang Weightifting ng Pilipinas president Monico Puentevella advised The STAR.
The sanction was launched by the Worldwide Testing Company, a number one anti-doping program tapped by the Worldwide Weightlifting Federation.
ITA reported that Sarno’s sanction began final Aug. 4 and can finish on Aug. 3 of 2027 after committing three whereabouts failures inside the prescribed 12-month interval and didn’t problem the proposed punishment.
Puentevella, nevertheless, didn’t touch upon the doping problem however mentioned Sarno has been out of the nationwide workforce indefinitely for months now.
“She’s out for failure to report,” mentioned Puentevella.
Additionally out of the workforce was one other Olympian, John Ceniza, for an undisclosed cause.
