(UTV|COLOMBO) – Six more Russians have been banned for life from the Olympics in the latest punishment for doping in the country.
Inna Dyubanok, Ekaterina Lebedeva, Yekaterina Pashkevich, Anna Shibanova, Yekaterina Smolentseva and Galina Skiba were part of the women’s ice hockey team that reached the quarter-finals at the Sochi Games three years ago.
Thirty one Russians have now been banned since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) began investigating claims of doping at Sochi 2014.
Russia was last week barred from the 2018 Winter Olympics, although it has been suggested more than 200 athletes could still compete as neutrals.
The IOC said rulings on more athletes would be made “in the next few weeks”.
Courtesy: BBC Sport
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