In the manipulation and doping scandal surrounding hosts Russia at the 2014 Winter Olympics, ten more athletes are now under investigation.
The IOC announced on Tuesday that the number of cases investigated by the Oswald Disciplinary Commission increased to 46.
Since, among other things, the forensic analysis of doping samples has not yet been completed, it is still possible to open new cases.
On Tuesday, the IOC also suspended six of seven accused female ice hockey players from the Olympic Games for life and subsequently excluded the entire Russian women’s ice hockey team from the 2014 games in Sochi (sixth place). The number of Russian athletes banned by the IOC has thus increased to 31, and in two cases there has been no sanction.
In the cases of Inna Dyubanok, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Yekaterina Pashkevich, Anna Shebanova, Yekaterina Smolentseva and Galina Skiba, the Oswald Commission considered doping violations in Sochi as proven.
A seventh indicted Russian hockey player has been acquitted, and the IOC announced in a statement on its website that “further hearings on other athletes will take place in the coming weeks”.