Russia Mar 19, 2018
Russia announced a 169-strong team for the Winter Olympics on Thursday, without many of the country’s top athletes. The team has been depleted by 46 bans for doping at the 2014 Games in Sochi, as well as the International Olympic Committee’s refusal to issue invitations for dozens more athletes, citing new evidence of alleged drug use. With the Russian team. Russia Mar 19, 2018
New evidence is being used to vet Russian athletes ahead of next month’s Pyeongchang Games, the International Olympic Committee said Thursday. The IOC said a database from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory shows evidence of attempts to “hide and modify” biological data pointing to steroid use. The Olympic body said it will pass on the data to international sports federations, who.