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"The Bobsleigh Federation of Russia, following the materials
provided by RUSADA Disciplinary anti-doping committee, rendered
a decision that made athlete Trunenkov Dmitriy ineligible for
four years... the period commencing on April 19, 2016," RUSADA
said.
It did not say what specific violation Trunenkov, who won the
gold medal as part of the four-man team at the Sochi 2014 winter
Olympics, had committed.
Russian sent a small team to last year's Rio de Janeiro Olympics
following a doping scandal which caused hundreds of its athletes
to be banned from competing there.
Russia's athletics federation remains suspended and sports
events have been moved away from Russia as the country grapples
with the fallout of a widespread state-backed doping program
involving athletes across many sports.
The International Olympic Committee is also re-testing samples
from past Games including Sochi, where organizers allegedly
switched positive doping samples of Russian athletes with clean
ones in order to avoid detection and to give them the edge over
their rivals.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Ed Osmond)
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