Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Doping ban for Russain race-walker

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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