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Former Russian biathlete Evgeny Ustyugov lost case before the appeal committee of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

They confirmed that Ustyugov had committed a violation of anti-doping rules. All his four-year results will be canceled – from January 2010 until the end of his career in 2014. Thus, the Russian will lose the gold and bronze won at the 2010 Olympic Games Vancouver.

The banned oxandrolone was found in Ustyugov’s doping test

Independent disciplinary body Biathlon Integrity Unit (BIU) notedthat the CAS Appeals Committee upheld the findings of the court’s anti-doping division, which ruled that Ustyugov “committed an anti-doping rule violation based on anomalies identified in his Athlete Biological Passport.” He was previously accused of using the banned drug oxandrolone.

Based on this decision, Ustyugov was punished with a four-year disqualification. All competition results from January 24, 2010 until his retirement at the end of the 2013/2014 season are void, including all medals, points and prizes. These include gold in the mass start and bronze in the men’s relay at the Vancouver Olympics.

The BIU stressed that it and the International Biathlon Union (IBU) welcome this decision. It also indicated that the Russian can appeal it in the Federal Court Switzerland (SFT), however, “such appeals are permitted only on narrow procedural grounds.”

Ustyugov was previously deprived of gold at the Games in Sochi

The BIU also noted that Ustyugov has filed an appeal against another recent and separate CAS decision. Then the court rejected a joint appeal filed by the athlete and the former biathlete Svetlana Sleptsovawho challenged the CAS verdicts issued by the IBU Anti-Doping Commission in February 2020.

Then Ustyugova also recognized guilty of violating anti-doping rules and had his results annulled since August 27, 2013. As a result, he was deprived of the gold medal at the Sochi Olympics, which he won in the relay. However, in today’s statement, the BIU emphasized that the redistribution of medals from that race will only occur after the final verdict of the Swiss Federal Court and the subsequent official decision of the Executive Council of the International Olympic Committee.

Proceedings against the Russian have been launched World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in 2018 based on results from the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory database.

Ustyugov then named what happened was a mess. “I will go to the end, I have already gone to the Austrian court and I will go to any other. Time will tell who is right, I will only demand a public review with the participation of journalists,” he said.

In September C.A.S. rejected appeal of Ustyugov and Sleptsova. She was found guilty of using ostarine.

Ustyugov explained the positive doping test as a rare mutation

Biathlete explained The discovery of oxandrolone in him is due to the fact that in fact Russian scientists discovered rare mutations in his genes.

He stated that a genome-wide study revealed hereditary mutations, the consequence of which is a constantly elevated hemoglobin level, and the IBU management allegedly knew about this, so “he has nothing to hide.”

“Apparently, someone is hunting for Russian medals,” Ustyugov believed.

Alexander Makarovdirector of the Institute of Molecular Biology, where the study was carried out, spokethat the obtained genetic data made it possible to raise the question of dropping the charges, and lawyers intended to use them in the process in CAS.

Russia recognized that Ustyugov has no chance of winning the appeal

Two-time Olympic champion in biathlon Svetlana Ishmuratova after today’s message statedthat Evgeny Ustyugov has virtually no chance of challenging the decision to deprive him of the 2010 Olympic gold medal.

“And you wouldn’t wish this on your enemy – 14 years after winning the 2010 Olympics, losing a gold medal. The very fact that this happened after so many years is very surprising. Of course, there is practically no chance of challenging anything through a Swiss court,” she considered.

Sports commentator Dmitry Guberniev countedthat such stories would not exist if Russia had truly developed sports medicine, made blood passports, medical passports, and “used less doping.”

“It’s a shame, but it was clear that this would be taken away from us,” he said, also believing that there was no chance of a positive appeal in a Swiss court.