Olympic champion in Bobsli Dmitry Trunenkov is disqualified due to doping

The 2014 Winter Olympiad champion Dmitry Trunenkov is disqualified for violation of anti-doping rules. According to Interfax, the press service of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (Rusada) reported this.

"The Russian Bobsleya Federation, on the basis and pursuance of a decision of the disciplinary anti -doping committee, Rusad decided to disqualify the athlete Dmitry for four years, starting on April 19, 2016, for violation of all -Russian anti -doping rules," the report said.

According to the agency, Trunenkov violated paragraph 2.1 (the presence of a prohibited substance, or its metabolites, or markers in a sample taken from the athlete’s body).

As explained by the President of the Russian Bobsley Federation, Alexander Zubkov, this case of a doping violation by Trunenkov does not apply to the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. "No, it has nothing to do with the 2014th year, this is 2016," Zubkov said. Accordingly, Trunenkov will not lose the awards of the highest dignity conquered in the crew of Zubkov in Sochi-2014.

Trunenkov played for the Russian team from 2006 to 2016. The 2014 Olympic champion in the Four spoke at the position of the dispersing in the crew of Zubkov.

In December 2016, it became known that the World Bobslei and Skeleton Championship of 2017 was moved from Sochi to Germany, it will accept the city of Koenigzee. The transfer of competitions became known on December 13th. “In this difficult time, it would be prudent not to arrange such competitions in Russia,” IBSF said. The federation in the federation was justified in two arguments.

Firstly, the statement says, it is necessary to give the athletes and coaches from all countries to focus on sports, and not on disputes and accusations - it does not matter whether fair or not. Secondly, in the current situation, "it is almost impossible to appreciate the efforts of the organizing committee (including the Russian Bobsleya Federation. - Ed.) Undertaken to prepare competitions, as well as the quality of the" sled "highway as one of the best in the world.

After that, the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov called the decision "extremely politicized", adding that it "proceeds from statements that do not have sufficient justification."

The World Bobslei and Skeleton Championship was supposed to be held in the Sochi microdistrict of Krasnaya Polyana from February 13 to 26, 2017. Previously, a number of leading masters of sanarium sports called for IBSF to transfer competitions to another country. On December 11, the Skeleton Latvian team announced its intention to boycott the championship if it is held in Russia. In the national teams of Austria and South Korea, they noticed that they also do not exclude such a decision.

On December 9, Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren presented the second part of the report prepared for the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA). The investigation showed that over 1,000 Russian athletes in almost 30 types of Olympic and Paralympic sports were involved in the doping program of Russia, including the number of the Sochi Olympiad 2014 Bobsleist Zubkov and Alexei Voevoda.