Russian athletics has suffered another blow with their federation revealing a teenage race-walker has been suspended for doping.
Evgeny
Pantyushin was sanctioned for nine months, backdated to October 1,
after the banned steroid prednisolone was found in his system at the
national championships.
The 18-year-old trained under Russia head
walking coach Viktor Chegin, who was being investigated by the
international sport's governing body IAAF because at least 16 of his
other athletes were issued bans in recent years.
More positive tests have come from athletes who trained at a centre under his management.
Last
month five Russian walkers who trained under Chegin, three of them
Olympic champions, received bans for doping. The head of the athletics
federation resigned in response.
A senior official in the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) told Sky Sports News HQ
two weeks ago that Russia had started their own investigation into
allegations of widespread and systematic doping within the Russian
sport.
In November a German documentary ran claims that there was
widespread and systematic doping in Russian sports and that 99% of
athletes were doping.
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