Ali Saidi-Sief ( ar, علي سعيدي سياف, born March 15, 1978) is an Algerian

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. His speciality is the

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race, but he took a silver medal in the

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for the

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, losing the gold to

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n athlete Million Wolde. Saidi-Sief received a two-year suspension from the

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after failing a

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at the

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, Canada by testing positive for

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, a banned performance-enhancing

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. A second expert examination at a laboratory in

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showed that a supplement he had been taking (Peruvat) contained

, which was not in the labelled ingredients. This did not affect his doping ban, as the rules apply strict athlete liability, but he vowed to seek compensation from the manufacturer.Panapress
German lab finds suspended Algerian athlete innocent
20 September 2001

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* 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Constantine, Algeria Algerian male middle-distance runners Algerian male long-distance runners Olympic athletes of Algeria Olympic silver medalists for Algeria Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Algeria Algerian sportspeople in doping cases Doping cases in athletics Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Algeria Athletes (track and field) at the 2005 Mediterranean Games Athletes stripped of World Athletics Championships medals Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics 21st-century Algerian people 20th-century Algerian people {{Algeria-Olympic-medalist-stub

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