Ten medalists from the 2008 Beijing Olympics, including 2012 high jump champion Anna Chicherova, were among 14 Russians that tested positive in the reanalysis of their doping samples, state television reported Tuesday.
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The country’s athletes are now banned from worldwide competition.
The Russian athletics federation said in a statement on Tuesday that it would bar any athlete found to have used doping in previous years from competing at Rio.
High jumper Anna Chicherova, who was likely to compete in the Rio Olympics, is among those who tested positive.
The absence of a WADA-accredited laboratory in the world’s largest country has created issues for blood testing because worldwide rules require the samples to reach a laboratory within 48 hours, Krotov said, adding a Russian laboratory was an important asset for WADA. The country’s track and field athletes have been suspended since November after an worldwide investigation uncovered damning evidence of doping and corruption.
A new anti-doping law drafted in consultation with WADA was passed last month, but the agency later said “inconsistencies” meant it fell short of strict worldwide standards and declared Kenya “non-compliant with immediate effect”.
“Those sportsmen who have a chance to go to Rio will undergo at least three additional doping tests”. “There is no final decision from the viewpoint of the time needed for it to leave an athlete’s body system and the research continues”, the sports minister said.
Mutko said the criminalization legislation also is aimed at showing Russian Federation is purging its sports programs of dopers to bring the doping scandal to an end.
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“We don’t know the results of the tests and didn’t control anything – it was the IOC’s lab and everything was then sent to Lausanne for storage. We’re a sports family”, he said.
The IOC working together with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) retested 454 urine samples from Beijing. “We’re a sports family”, Ministry of Sports’ Vitaly Mutko told TIME.
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“Any athletes found cheating should face corresponding sanctions”.
