Skier Marina Lisogor had tested positive. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
The Olympic Games in Sochi were hit by a third doping case Saturday after a Ukrainian skier failed a drugs test, as German prosecutors searched the home of a double Olympic gold medal-winning biathlete.
The Ukrainian Olympic Committee revealed that cross country skier Marina Lisogor had tested positive, after German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle and Italian bobsledder William Frullani also failed tests.
Sachenbacher-Stehle was expelled from the Winter Olympics after testing positive for a banned stimulant during the Games, sending shock waves through German sport.
The Ukrainian Olympic Committee said Lisogor, 30, told a disciplinary hearing that she had unwittingly consumed the banned substance in a medicine.
“The decision about the future fate of the athlete will be taken in line with IOC rules,” the Ukraine Olympic Committee said.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 23rd, 2014.
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