Admin l Tuesday, November 28, 2017
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – The International Olympic Committee, IOC has imposed life ban on five Russian athletes for alleged abuse of prohibited substances at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.
The athletes are Russian skeleton athlete, Sergei CHUDINO; two Russian bobsledders, Sochi 2014 gold medallists Aleksei NEGODAILO and Dmitrii TRUNENKOV. Others are two Russian biathletes, Sochi 2014 silver medallists Yana ROMANOVA and Olga VILUKHINA.
have been sanctioned. The IOC has also published the first full decision including the reasoning of the Disciplinary Commission, related to the case of Russian cross country skier and Sochi 2014 gold and silver medallist Alexander LEGKOV.
They were nanned by the IOC Disciplinary Commission, composed of Mr Denis Oswald (Chair), Mrs Gunilla Lindberg and Mr Tony Estanguet.
According to the IOC, Sergei CHUDINOV, Aleksei NEGODAILO, Dmitrii TRUNENKOV, Yana ROMANOVA and Olga VILUKHINA are found to have committed anti-doping rule violations pursuant to Article 2 of The International Olympic Committee Anti-Doping Rules applicable to the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, in 2014, and are disqualified from the events in which they participated.
” In addition, the five athletes are declared ineligible to be accredited in any capacity for all editions of the Games of the Olympiad and the Olympic Winter Games subsequent to the Olympic Winter Games Sochi 2014″, the IOC said.
