State Duma deputy, Olympic speed skating champion Svetlana Jourova in a conversation with , she called the situation of deprivation of a Russian biathlete absurd Evgenia Ustyugova Olympic medal.
On Tuesday, the press service of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) announced that Ustyugov would be stripped of his 2010 Olympic gold medal after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in the biological passport affair.
— After 14 years, it is already difficult to prove something in a biological passport, only in prosecution. Suddenly, like a devil out of a snuffbox, they are targeting us for doping again. I think there will be more stories. And it will be almost impossible to appeal, because foreign lawyers rarely handle Russian cases. The situation with Evgeniy is absurd,” Zhurova told .
Ustyugov can appeal this decision to the Swiss Federal Court (SFT). However, the IBU statement notes that such appeals are only permitted for narrow procedural reasons.
Previously, Ustyugov was also deprived of the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Sochi.
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