Russia says Ahn barred from Games
Print Edition
Russian short track speed skater Viktor Ahn, biathlete Anton Shipulin and cross-country skier Sergei Ustyugov are not on the list of athletes eligible for next month鈥檚 Pyeongchang Winter Games, the Russian Olympic Committee said yesterday.
The committee鈥檚 vice president, Stanislav Pozdnyakov, said in a statement the three had not been included in the pool from which Russian competitors will be invited to compete in Pyeongchang by the International Olympic Committee. The IOC last month banned Russia from Pyeongchang over 鈥渟ystematic manipulation鈥 of the anti-doping system at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, but left the door open to athletes with no history of doping to compete as 鈥淥lympic Athletes from Russia.鈥
鈥淎thletes like Viktor Ahn, Anton Shipulin and Sergei Ustyugov were not involved in the Oswald commission proceedings,鈥 Pozdnyakov said in the statement, referring to an IOC commission investigating alleged doping violations by Russian athletes.
鈥淭hey were never involved in doping stories and the many tests they passed over their careers have showed that they are clean athletes. Nevertheless their names are absent from the list of potential Olympic participants.鈥
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow regretted that the three athletes were not considered eligible for Pyeongchang. 鈥淲e have heard this saddening news in the media. If this decision has indeed been made, we regret to hear it. We hope for clarity in this situation,鈥 Peskov said.
Ahn, who was born in South Korea, won three gold medals and a bronze at the 2006 Turin Games for his native country but was passed over for Vancouver four years later due to a knee injury and after falling out with his country鈥檚 skating union. The 32-year-old switched allegiance to Russia in 2011 and won three gold medals and a bronze at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Shipulin, 30, won bronze in the biathlon relay at Vancouver and gold in Sochi. Ustyugov, 25, won two golds in the 30km skiathlon and the team sprint at the 2017 worlds.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 娌狪CP璇侊細娌狪CP澶05050403鍙-1
- |
- 浜掕仈缃戞柊闂讳俊鎭湇鍔¤鍙瘉锛31120180004
- |
- 缃戠粶瑙嗗惉璁稿彲璇侊細0909346
- |
- 骞挎挱鐢佃鑺傜洰鍒朵綔璁稿彲璇侊細娌瓧绗354鍙
- |
- 澧炲肩數淇′笟鍔＄粡钀ヨ鍙瘉锛氭勃B2-20120012
Copyright 漏 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
