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They didn’t let him pedal
The leader of the Russian national race on the highway, Vladimir Gusev, was suspended from participation in the Beijing Olympic Games, the whole sport agency, citing the president of the Russian bicycle sport Federation, Alexander Gusyatnikov.
At the end of July, Gusev was excluded from the Astana bicycle company on the basis of excess of "normal levels of various biochemical indicators." In the Olympic team of Russia, Gusev will be replaced by Denis Menshov.
“Our federation, together with the Russian Olympic Committee and Russia, decided not to include Vladimir Gusev in the Olympic application for games in Beijing,” Gusyatnikov said. “Allows you to refrain from detailed comments, everything will be stated in the press release that we are now preparing. In the race with a separate start of Gusev, Menshov will replace.”
In the command race, according to the President of the FVSR, there will be no changes, since six racers initially claimed five seats, and Vladimir Karpets, Denis Menshov, Sergey Ivanov, Alexander Kolobnev and Vladimir Efimkin will come to the start in Beijing.
The press release of the Federation, published later, states that Alexander Kolobnev will take the place of Vladimir Gusev as part of the team.
Earlier on Tuesday it became known that the Russian boxer Romanchuk will miss the Olympic Games in Beijing because of the criminal case against him on the fact of the murder. On July 28, in the center of Vladivostok, Romanchuk quarreled with the local resident Oleg Meshkov. During the conflict, Romanchuk from the traumatic pistol "Osa" belonging to Mashkov shot him in person. The victim was taken to the hospital, but a few days later he died of a wound.
On July 31, the International Association of Athletics Federations informed the All -Russian Athletics Federation about its decision to temporarily remove from participation in all competitions under its auspices of six Russian athletes.
IAAF called Elena Soboleva, Daria Pishchealnikova, Gulfia Hanafeeva, Tatyana Tomashova, Julia Fomenko and Svetlana Cherkasova. The reason is the mismatch of the DNA of athletes in analyzes of doping tests taken in 2007.