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Russian Olympic doping appeals dismissed by Court of Arbitration for Sport

Last Updated: 26/07/18 11:02am

 Maria Abakumova has lost her appeal over a doping ban
Maria Abakumova has lost her appeal over a doping ban

Russian athletes Maria Abakumova, Tatyana Lebedeva, and Ekaterina Gnidenko have lost their appeals to the Court of Arbitration for Sport over doping offences at the Olympic Games.

CAS issued a statement to confirm the International Olympic Committee decisions to disqualify track cyclist Gnidenko from the 2012 London Olympic Games, Abakumova, silver medallist in javelin, and Lebedeva, silver medallist in long jump and triple jump, from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

All three were excluded from the Games after re-testing of samples revealed the presence of the banned anabolic steroid Chlorodehydromethyltestosterone (CDMT).

The trio had appealed their bans to the court, looking to have them set aside.

A statement said: "The CAS panel found that the appellants were unable to prove that the testing methods adopted by the laboratories, which led to the positive findings against each of them, were not scientifically valid in accordance with the standard required to be applied."

Russian athlete Tatyana Lebedeva has been banned for doping offences
Russian athlete Tatyana Lebedeva has been banned for doping offences

The shadow of doping has hung heavily over Russian sport since 2015 on the back of a series of scandals which culminated in the IOC banning the country from this year's Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

The IOC said it had found evidence of an "unprecedented systematic manipulation" of the anti-doping system that led to a series of suspensions for the country's athletes.

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Russia, which has since been restored to the movement, has denied state-sponsored doping and pledged to work with international sports bodies to help curb the use of banned substances.

Lebedeva, who still has an Olympic long jump gold medal from the 2004 Athens Games and a triple jump silver from Sydney in 2000, retired from competition in 2013.

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