Russian biathlete Anton Shipulin said in a live broadcast of Match TV television channel that biathletes should not make hasty conclusions amid the unfolding doping scandal.
2. Russian biathlete Anton Shipulin said in a live broadcast
of Match TV television channel that biathletes should not
make hasty conclusions amid the unfolding doping
scandal.
An informal meeting of biathletes was held in the German
town of Oberhof on January 4. This meeting did not
support the call by two-time Olympic champion, French
biathlete Martin Fourcade of boycotting the World Cup
Biathlon stages. Fourcade said he believed that the
sanctions imposed by the International Biathlon Union
(IBU) on the suspects of the doping scandal were
insufficient.
3. Part Two of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)
Independent Commission report and its chairman,
Canadian sports law professor Richard McLaren,
revealed that more than 1,000 Russian athletes
competing in summer, winter and Paralympic sports
could have been involved in the manipulations system
of concealing positive doping tests. The second part of
the report claimed that doping samples of 12 Russian
medalists of the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi had been
tampered with. It also claimed that doping tests of
two more Russian athletes, who won four gold medals
of the 2014 Sochi Olympics had been falsified as well.