Olympic cross-country ski champion Alexander Legkov on , he admitted that the moment of challenging a disqualification for anti-doping rule violations and fighting for Olympic medals in court was very difficult.
Legkov won gold in the 50km marathon at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. In 2017, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) found a skier guilty of an anti-doping rule violation after discovering tampering marks on an anti-doping test tube, and the athlete’s results were overturned. In 2018, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned the disqualification and Legkov managed to return the medal.
“I was dying, for me it was the most important and fundamental thing in life.” I couldn’t just give the medal away, even though I understood that they could just take it away based on these reports or whatever. I was very worried, I practically did not live. I will never explain to anyone what I felt, and I myself am already starting to forget it. What have I done to make things easier? Sport helped me. I ran at night, when the blood was circulating, my mood improved and I began to communicate with lawyers at night, write letters, analyze, think about how to return the medal.
It was a tragedy. If you know you ate something and then they take your medal, that’s one thing. But when you know that this medal is (clean) like morning dew… It’s incredibly difficult to perceive, “Legkov said on the air of the program” Everyone for the match! on the channel.
Legkov will turn 41 on May 7. In addition to winning the marathon at the Sochi Olympics, he won silver at the 2014 Games in the relay, silver and bronze at the World Championships, and a victory in the Tour de Ski multi-day race in 2013.
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