The IOC has sanctioned another athlete in the Russian doping scandal. As the IOC announced on Monday evening, Alexej Wojewoda was banned from all Olympic functions for the rest of his life.
Voyevoda had originally won gold at the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi in the bobsleigh of Alexander Subkov both in the two-man and the foursome. Both medals were withdrawn.
In another case, the IOC announced that the proceedings before the so-called Oswald Commission had been closed. It was not known which athlete was affected.
In the meantime, the Commission has imposed lifelong Olympic suspensions on 32 Russian athletes. In three cases there was no sanction. At present, eleven more cases are still pending.
Subkov, now president of the national sled federation, had already been condemned at the end of November. The other pushers of the four-man bobsleigh are already locked.
At the beginning of December, the IOC had excluded Russia from the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang. Under certain conditions, however, clean Russian athletes are allowed to compete as neutral athletes.
In addition, the IOC published the reasons for the ruling in the cases of the two skeleton pilots Olga Potylizina and Maria Orlowa.