Olympic Games: IOC blocks five more Russian athletes

In the course of the state doping scandal, the IOC imposed lifelong Olympic suspensions on five other Russian athletes. In addition to the biathletes Olga Wiluchina (Olympic silver medal in Sochi in sprint and with the relay) and Jana Romanowa (Season Silver) also the bobsleigh riders Alexei Negodailo and Dimitrij Trunenkow have to hand in their gold medals. In addition, skeleton pilot Sergei Chudinov (5th place) was suspended.

Negodailo and Trunenkov had ridden with pilot Alexander Subkov on a four-man bob in Sochi to gold. Subkov, who also became Olympic champion with the two-man bobsleigh, had already been banned from all Olympic functions for the rest of his life on Friday.

In addition to Subkov, the so-called Oswald Commission of the IOC had already banned the Sochi Olympic champions Alexander Tretyakov (Skeleton) and Alexander Legkov (cross-country skiing) from participating in the Olympic Games for life. In the meantime, a total of 19 Russian Sochi starters received the highest penalty.

Executive member Denis Oswald’s IOC commission is responsible for sanctioning the 28 suspicious Russian Sochi starters named in the McLaren report (including twelve medal winners). The 5th. On the basis of the findings of a further commission led by former Swiss political leader Samuel Schmid, the IOC executive will decide on the launch of Russia at the Pyeongchang Winter Games next February.