Olympic Games 2018: Second doping case in Pyeongchang: Slovenian ice-hockey player convicted

The Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang have their second official case of doping. The Slovenian hockey player Ziga Jeglic was found to have used the asthma medication Fenoterol without permission. This was announced by the Anti-Doping Chamber of the International Sports Court CAS in Pyeongchang.

The 29-year-old striker, who is under contract with the Russian KHL club Neftechimik Nischnekamsk and won the ERC Ingolstadt championship in the DEL in the 2013/14 season, was excluded from the games and has to leave the Olympic Village. According to CAS, Jeglic accepted the measures.

Slovenia, who had beaten the USA in the preliminary round and finished in second place, played Norway for the quarter-finals on Tuesday afternoon. The CAS announcement appeared shortly before the game began. Jeglic had scored the decisive goal for the 3:2 final in the preliminary round against Slovakia in the penalty shootout.

Despite Jeglics participation, the results achieved so far are still valid. Measures against a complete team will only be imposed by the World Federation IIHF if more than two players of a team of doping have been convicted.

Previously, the Japanese short-tracker Kei Saito had been caught in Pyeongchang with the masking substance acetazolamide. The case of the Russian curler Alexander Kruschelnizki was still not official on Tuesday.

Russian media had reported that Kruschelnizki had been positively tested in A and B samples for the forbidden cardiac drug Meldonium.

The CAS ad hoc chamber in Pyeongchang, which is responsible for the treatment of doping cases in Pyeongchang, had only announced on Monday that it was investigating the Russian. Officially, the case arises only when CAS announces measures.