Iranian super heavyweight weightlifter Saeid Alihosseini returned to the field after eight years suspension.

Alihosseini failed two doping tests, in March 2008 and October 2009. After originally being banned for life his penalty was changed to a 12 year suspension.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport decreased his lifetime ban for a second doping offense to eight years.

CAS originally barred Saeid Alihosseini from competition until October 2021, when he will be 33, after he tested positive for the anabolic steroid methandienone.

The court eased a lifetime ban imposed by the International Weightlifting Federation because of the circumstances of Alihosseini's first offense. CAS accepted that a subsequently banned coach doped unwitting Iranian lifters with clenbuterol.

Alihosseini, 29, holds the junior world record for the +105 kg category.

The +105kg weightlifter prepares for the 2017 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships in Anaheim, USA, scheduled for Nov. 28 to Dec. 6.