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CAS rejects appeals from Zubkov and three other Russian bobsleighers

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the Swiss city of Lausanne has dismissed an appeal by Russian bobsleighs for disqualification for anti-doping rule violations, as well as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) proposes to increase the athlete’s penalty to four years, the CAS press service reported on its website on Friday.

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The appeals of Russian bobsleighers – Alexander Zubkov, Alexander Kasyanov, Iļvira Huzina and Alexei Pushkarev – were rejected with the entry into force on 16 January 2019 of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) notice of two-year disqualification for these athletes.

Disqualification begins in December 2018, but all results achieved by athletes will be canceled from February 2014.

The appeals were heard by videoconference on 23 April. At the same time, WADA’s appeal against the IBSF decision was considered. WADA stated in March 2019 that it considered the punishment of athletes to be insufficient and would seek to increase the period of disqualification to four years. CAS has also rejected this appeal.

At the end of 2017, the International Olympic Committee (MANY) The Disciplinary Board, chaired by Denis Osvalds, found Zubkov, Alexei Vojevod, Kasyanov, Pushkarov and Huzin guilty of anti-doping rule violations, annulled their results at the Sochi Olympics and imposed a lifetime ban on their participation in the Olympics. CAS was later replaced by a lifetime disqualification from the Olympics with the release of the 2018 Games in Pyongyang.

Latvian bobsleigh pilot after disqualification of Russian athletes on February 15 this year during the World Cup stage and European Championship in Sigulda Oskars Melbārdis Daumants Dreiškens, Arvis Vilkastis and Jānis Strengs received the gold medals of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games in a solemn ceremony with the pushers Daumants Dreiškens, Arvis Vilkasts and Jānis Strengs.

Already in November 2017, the IOC annulled the results obtained by Zubkov and his crews in the Sochi Games, as manipulations of athletes’ doping analyzes were detected, replacing them with “pure” tests.

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