In the last February release on the doping violations of the Athletics Integrity Unit, along with the disqualification of the Ukrainian Dmytrenko there was also another walker: the Chinese Zhang Lin.
The Chinese athlete has been suspended due to the use of clostebol an anabolic steroid substance which is found in particular in some ointments for the treatment of abrasions and similar.
The athlete has been sanctioned for 2 years. The infringement date refers to December 3, 2017.
His first positivity, however, was found at the national selections for the London World Championships on March 5, 2017.
Very hardly the twenty-three Chinese athlete will return to the races. Being a member of the Military Army, the regulation of this body provides for the definitive suspension of sports activity for doping cases. The boy, in fact, was immediately suspended by his group and promptly framed in the military activities of the army.
Zhang Lin, whose best result is the 5th place at the 2015 Beijing World Championships (3:44:39), had been training in the year 2015 and in the winter 2016 in Italy in Saluzzo.
Failed in March 2016, both the qualifying race for the Rio Olympics (5th place in 3:48 :) that in May, in Rome, the World Cup (31st place in 4:19:43), was not more inserted into national teams in the year 2017.