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Published time: August 03, 2012 16:47
Edited time: August 03, 2012 20:48
Victoria Baranova.(AFP Photo / Olivier Morin)

Russian track cyclist Victoria Baranova has been expelled from the London Games after failing a pre-Olympics doping test.

­Baranova reportedly tested positive for testosterone on July 24. The sample was taken at the request of the International Olympic Committee as part of its pre-Games testing program. Baranova, who has already left the games, admitted her guilt, the R-Sport news agency reports.

Ranked No. 2 in her discipline by the UCI, she trained separately from the Russian team in the run-up to the Games. She won the keirin in the European junior track championships in Portugal last month.

This is not the first drugs scandal to shake the Games in London. Also on Friday, Ivan Tsikhan, the Belarus medal hopeful in hammer throw, was withdrawn from his country’s team after it was announced that his 2004 doping sample had tested positive.

Earlier this week, Albanian weightlifter Hysen Pulaku tested positive for steroids, while Uzbek gymnast Luiza Galiulina was found to have taken a drugs masking agent.

Comments (8)

TO:Charles Bush (unregistered) (unregistered) 04.08.2012 14:08

for reasons which we might come to know in the future- anti-black racism is very popular at RT website. In reality, Gabby Douglass' Gold is Russia’s least problem as the number of Russian Athletes openly admitting doping (such as this cyclist who said she was trying to see if she can get away with it!) and today a Russian weigh lifter who was expected to win Gold went home with unnamed illness. Russia has not yet fully recovered from the Soviet collapse. Russia is not doing well in categories the nation should have been doing much better such as swimming and rowing. However, almost all the anti-black racists here are from the U.S. This anti-black racism is coming from the U.S not from Russia.

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Charles Bush (unregistered) 04.08.2012 06:23

I have never seen so much racist manure in my life as is coming out in these comments.  Gabby Douglas was great and represented the US splendidly!  She was fantastic!  The Russians were not in her league.  The Black athletes are fantastic and win a lot of medals for the US.  They are just as drug free as the white US.  Perhaps Michael Phelps uses those sophisticated drugs you are speaking of.

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Ein Volk (unregistered) 04.08.2012 05:45

tricky (unregistered) wrote in #5
Russia, Iran, China, Belarus, India, North Korea- all targets of ZION olympics. No coincidence.
Hey I've an idea!  Why not send the zionist pc brigade over to help fill the empty seats?  They will have a wide range of choice I suspect.  Oh and I hear there are complaints about lack of kosher food.  Nevermind zion IDF-just take a packed lunch and all will be kosher! Enjoy and best regards.
Why not start your own Olympics? Where you all take drugs and cheat against one another? :) Have fun cheating one another :)

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