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Three Russian athletes disqualified ahead of Olympics

Published time: July 03, 2012 12:05
Edited time: July 03, 2012 16:05
Russia's Evgeniya Zinurova (RIA Novosti/Iliya Pitalev)

Doping has put an end to the Olympic dreams of three Russian female runners; Evgeniya Zinurova, Nailya Yulamanova and Svetlana Klyuka have received two-year bans less than a month before London 2012.

­The statement from the anti-doping body of the International Association of Athletics Federations, explains the athletes were punished for the “abnormal readouts on their biological passports”, which means they were tampering with urine samples.

The disqualifications would see the trio not only missing the Games in the British capital, but parting with some silverware they won earlier as well.

Yulamanova will see all of her results after August 20, 2009 annulled, which means she’ll lose her European marathon gold of 2010.  

While Zinurova is to be deprived of the indoor 800-meter title she won at the European championships in 2011.

Klyuka’s results starting from August 15, 2009 will also be annulled, which means she’ll keep the silver she took at the Euros in 2006. The 33-year-old was fourth on 800-meter in Beijing 2008.  

The 2012 Summer Olympics are to take place in London between July 27 and August 12.

Comments (4)

TO:Otto von Bulow (unregistered) 04.07.2012 12:04

you are a clear anti-black racist. Doping is widely practice in professional sport. But I am closely following Russia’s 2012 London roster and there are four Olympic metal hopefuls with African heritage in the Russians team none of them has been accused of doping so far. Carl Lewis has been proven to have used doping to win. The same is true for Neil Armstrong. At any case, I am deeply saddened that not one but three Russians were disqualified. They should have known better. They are doing this for money and personal glory not in the name of the nation. Their coaches should be found and fired. These are young people under immense pressure and they need wise guiding hand and this hand is often that of the trainer and the coach. When that guidance fails, one can get this result.

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Otto von Bulow (unregistered) 03.07.2012 16:09

It is NOT if you are doped but who is doped... Black Americans are free to be doped
and if you protest that you are accused of being racists:
Olym pic legend Carl Lewis is among more than 100 American athletes involved in a cover-up of drug use, documents reveal. Lewis and two of his training partners all took the same three types of banned stimulants and were caught at the 1988 US Olympic trials, according to the documents released by a disgruntled former senior US anti-doping official, Dr Wade Exum. But on appeal to their national Olympic committee, all were cleared of inadvertent doping. Two months later, at the Seoul Olympics, Lewis finished second in the 100 metres sprint. But when Canadian Ben Johnson failed his Olympic drug test, Lewis was awarded the 100m gold.   Lewis also won the Olympic long jump - as part of his career tally of nine Olympic gold medals - and his training partner, Joe De Loach, won the 200m in Seoul.   Lewi s's lawyer, Martin Singer, has responded to the revelations by saying his client had taken only a herbal remedy. http://ww w.smh.com.au/article s/2003/04/17/1050172 709693.html  

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Otto von Bulow (unregistered) 03.07.2012 16:06

It is if you are doped but who is doped... Black Americans are free to be doped
and if you protest that you are accused of being racists:

The Herald reported last year that a US athlete tested positive to steroids in 1999 but was allowed to compete - and win an Olympic gold medal - in the 2000 Sydney Games. US officials still refuse to divulge the name of the athlete, or those of 13 other athletes who had failed drug tests around the same time, citing privacy laws.   In the Seoul 100m, Britain's Linford Christie was elevated from third to second after Johnson was disqualified. In later years, Christie was banned for using steroids.   T he International Olympic Committee's medical commission chairman , Arne Ljungqvist, said the Exum documents "fit a pattern" of failure to report on positive drug cases. But the USOC called Dr Exum's accusations "baseless".   Dr Exum said there were more than 100 positive tests for US athletes who won 19 Olympic medals between 1988 and 2000, but many were allowed to keep competing. http:/ /www.smh.com.au/arti cles/2003/04/17/1050 172709693.html  

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