Frenchman, five-time Olympic champion Martin Fourcade admitted that the disqualification of the Russian biathlete Evgenia Ustyugova gives him mixed feelings.
Previously, the CAS Appellate Division upheld the findings of the court’s anti-doping commission, which ruled that Ustyugov violated anti-doping rules based on anomalies identified in his athlete’s biological passport.
In accordance with this decision, Ustyugov was suspended for four years for a period including the Vancouver Olympics. As a result, Evgeniy will lose his 2010 Olympic awards – gold in the mass start and bronze in the men’s relay. In the mass start of the 2010 Games, Fourcade won a silver medal.
“I have built my life around this very important silver medal, so the news of the disqualification of the mass start winner at Vancouver 2010 gives me mixed feelings.
First of all, I am satisfied that the fight against doping is bearing fruit, even after 15 years. This fight, in which I invested so much, finally changed the color of my medal.
Finally, there is one question that will forever remain unanswered: what would my career have looked like if I had won gold in my first Games? The time for justice is not yet over, so today my thoughts are with the athletes who were not as lucky as me,” Fourcade wrote on social media.
Ustyugov can appeal the decision to the Swiss Federal Court (SFT), but such appeals are only allowed on narrow procedural grounds.
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