2012 Olympic finalists banned from using evidence from Russian labs

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Irina Tarasova in Russia was held at Luziniki Stadium 2013 IAAF World Championship Women's Gunmarm Finals Compete in August 12, 2013 in Moscow. Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS /AFP via Getty Images

Monaco — Monaco (AP) — 2012 Olympics The Russian shot put athlete who made it to the final was banned on Thursday based on decades-old evidence of state-sponsored doping long hidden in the database of a Moscow research institute.

Irinatarasowa was suspended for two years, and was disqualified from all guns from July 2012 to July 2016. said her unit of Athletics Integrity.

Tarasova was ninth in the London Olympic final. She was also stripped of her results at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow and the 2014 European Championships in Zurich. It did not identify evidence against Tarasova found at a Moscow testing facility, which was part of a years-long conflict between the agency and Russian authorities.

and demanded a clean version of the Moscow database from Russia in 2018 to seek closure of the steroid doping scandal that tainted the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

The program relied on Moscow laboratory staff working with national authorities to cover up positive drug tests and manipulate data entry into the global anti-doping system.

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WADA has submitted evidence to about 40 sports organizations, including the world athletics, since the database was obtained in 2019.

Falsification of Prior Data This extradition led to the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling banning the Russian team name, flag and anthem at last year's Tokyo Olympics and her February Winter Olympics in Beijing. did.

Currently 35 -year -old Tarasova last participated in the international tournament in 2015.

In a separate database case study, the AIU reported that from 2012 to 2014, the AIU screened Russian shot put and discus thrower Olesya Sviridova, who had already received a four-year doping ban. Disqualified result.

Either contestant may appeal the sanction of his successor.

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