Six Russian ice hockey players have been disqualified from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics for doping, meaning their country has also been removed from official results.
Inna Dyubanok, Ekaterina Lebedeva, Ekaterina Pashkevich, Anna Shibanova, Ekaterina Smolentseva and Galina Skiba were all found to have committed doping violations by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) following re-analysis of samples taken from the Sochi Games.
Proceedings against a seventh, unnamed, player were terminated and filed without her being found to have committed an anti-doping offence.
The six players have been “disqualified from the events in which they participated”, the IOC said while banning them from any future Olympics.
The Russian women’s team was also disqualified from the Sochi ice hockey competition and the IOC asked the International Ice Hockey Federation to modify its results from the event.
The Russian women’s team originally finished sixth.
Olympics: Six Russian ice hockey players banned for doping
