DOPING: IOC DISQUALIFIES RUSSIAN RELAY TEAM, SANCTIONS YULIA CHERMOSHANSKAYA

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Rio, August 17, 2016 – The International Olympic Committee(IOC) has sanctioned Russian athlete, Yulia Chermoshanskaya who took part in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games for failing anti-doping test.

It also disqualified the Russian Relay team at the games in which she took gold medal for taking prohibited performance enhancing drugs.

Yulia CHERMOSHANSKAYA, 30, of the Russian Federation, competed in the women’s 200m and the women’s 4x100m relay events and ranked 8th in the 200m and 1st in the 4x100m relay with her teammates.
“ Reanalysis of Chermoshanskaya’s samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances stanozolol and dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol).

“The IOC Disciplinary Commission, composed for this case of Denis Oswald (Chairman), Gunilla Lindberg and Ugur Erdener, decided that the Athlete, Yulia CHERMOSHANSKAYA is found to have committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to the IOC Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing in 2008 (presence and/or use, of a Prohibited Substance or its Metabolites or Markers in an athlete’s bodily specimen) is disqualified from all the events in which she participated on the occasion of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008, namely, the Women’s 200m and the Women’s 4x100m relay, and has the medal, the medallist pin and the diplomas obtained in the Women’s 200m and the Women’s 4x100m relay withdrawn and is ordered to return the same”, the IOC said in a statement.

It added that The Russian Federation Team is disqualified from the Women’s 4x100m relay and that the corresponding medals and diplomas are withdrawn and shall be returned. It requested the IAAF to modify the results of the above-mentioned events accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.

“The Russian Olympic Committee shall ensure full implementation of this decision. The Russian Olympic Committee shall notably secure the return to the IOC, as soon as possible, of the medals, the medallist pins and the diplomas awarded in connection with the Women’s 200m and in connection with the Women’s 4x100m relay to the athlete and to the other team members of the Women’s 4x100m Russian Federation Team”, the IOC said.

It noted that the International Olympic Committee is a not-for-profit independent international organisation made up of volunteers, which is committed to building a better world through sport.

“It redistributes more than 90 per cent of its income to the wider sporting movement, which means that every day the equivalent of USD 3.25 million goes to help athletes and sports organisations at all levels around the world”, it said.

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