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Eric Lira admits to giving athletes competing in the Olympics performance-enhancing medications

Posted : 09 May 2023
A Texas man who admitted to providing Olympic competitors with performance-enhancing substances faces up to 10 years in jail.

The first person accused under a new US legislation passed in response to Russia's state-sponsored Olympic doping scandals is 43-year-old Eric Lira.

The 2020 law bears Grigory Rodchenkov's name, a Russian whistleblower.

In a federal court, US Attorney Damian Williams declared that the incident was a "watershed moment for international sport."

The Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act gives US authorities the ability to punish anybody who engage in "doping programmes for the purpose of influencing international sports competitions," even though they have never been subject to anti-doping rules for sports.

The Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare, who received an 11-year sports ban last year, was revealed to have received medications from Lira.

The 34-year-old was kicked out of the Tokyo Olympics right before the women's 100-meter semifinals when it was discovered that she had tested positive for human growth ]hormone in a pre-2020 Games out-of-competition test in Slovakia.

Williams added: "Lira provided banned performance-enhancing substances to Olympic athletes who wanted to corruptly gain a competitive edge.

"Such craven efforts to undermine the integrity of sport subverts the purpose of the Olympic Games: to showcase athletic excellence through a level playing field.

"Lira's efforts to pervert that goal will not go unpunished."

The maximum punishment for breaking the Rodchenkov Anti-Doping Act is ten years in jail, however a court will decide Lira's sentence later.

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