Teja Gregorin, une biathlete slovene, a ete disqualifiee suite aux resultats de certaines reanalyses qui ont revele un cas de dopage, a annonce mercredi le Comite international olympique (CIO).
The Monday release listed: skeleton athlete Sergei Chudinov; gold medallist bobsledder Aleksei Negodailo; gold medallist bobsledder Dmitry Trunenkov; silver medallist biathlete Yana Romanova; and silver medallist biathlete Olga Vilukhina.
Another very special guest also made an appearance: Canadian Olympic biathlete Jean-Philippe Le Guellec, who participated in the Turin, Vancouver and Sochi Olympic Games.
Russian figure skater Ekaterina Bobrova, short-track speed skaters Semion Elistratov and Ekaterina Konstantinova, speed skater Pavel Kulizhnikov, biathlete Eduard Latypov, volleyball player Aleksandr Markin and cyclist Eduard Vorganov also tested positive for the drug.
Le meldonium, mis au point dans les annees 1970 dans l'ex-URSS, agite depuis plusieurs semaines les autorites antidopage: la Suedoise Abeba Aregawi, championne du monde 2013 du 1500 m (athletisme), la Russe Ekaterina Bobrova (patinage artistique), la biathlete ukrainienne Olga Abramova et le coureur de la formation cycliste russe Katusha Edouard Vorganov ont tous ete controle positifs a cette substance.
Kazakh biathlete Alina Raikova and skier Anastasia Slonova brought on January 25 two gold medals securing the first place in the overall medal standings of the competition after the first day of the tournament.
Stuart, who was also an international biathlete and competitive Nordic skier, was killed in January last year when he stopped his car on the A1 in Lincolnshire after it developed a fault.