On December 15, Beijing time, ESPN news, on Monday, the International Triathlon Organizing Committee will give heavy penalties to the Russian team and players. This is another major penalty for the Russian team after WADA punished the Russian team for suspected drug test fraud at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
The reason for the punishment was that two Russian athletes were found to have taken medicine during the Tokyo Olympic triathlon competition.
At the Tokyo Olympics, British track and field athlete Uja was also found to have failed a drug test. However, the silver medal of the British team has not been withdrawn. The bronze medals that Su Bingtian and four other Chinese players deserve have not yet been issued. Uja himself, too, was ashamed to say that he had taken the drug by mistake.
ESPN revealed that on Monday afternoon, in Lausanne, Switzerland, the International Triathlon Organizing Committee decided to increase the penalty for the Russian team. Because at the Tokyo Olympics, they had another "doping incident".
Russia's Igor Polyanskiy will be banned for three years. During 2022, Russia will be banned from hosting any triathlon-related events and all Russian positions in the Triathlon Organizing Committee will be suspended. After that, they will also conduct more drug tests on Russian players.
The Russian Triathlon Organizing Committee did not respond to the incident.
The punishment of the Russian player is indeed well deserved.
During the Tokyo Olympics, two Russian athletes, Igor Polyansky and Alexander Buruhankov, were found to have failed a drug test. In the subsequent secondary drug test, Igor Polyansky was again positive. He himself, on the other hand, has admitted to taking erythropoietin, which has long been on WADA's list of banned drugs.
The two competed in 2 triathlons at the Tokyo Olympics, but did not finish. Even with average results, Russian players are the focus of WADA's tests.
Previously, at the Tokyo Olympics, the British sprint relay athlete Uja failed the drug test. He himself admitted to taking the medicine, but said it was a mistake.
Now, more than 4 months have passed since the Olympic Games, and there is no result of the Uja affair. The IAAF punishes doping players much slower than triathlon.
Because there has been no penalty, the bronze medals of Xie Zhenye, Su Bingtian, Tang Xingqiang and Wu Zhiqiang of the Chinese team have not been issued, and the silver medal in the Canadian sprint relay event has not been given to the runners.
In addition, Britain's Uja is now only expelled from the British team. If the triathlon penalty is followed, Uja's career is basically over, and the British team will face a penalty of at least one year.
Previously, Russian netizens often complained that WADA was too double-standard in dealing with drug testing.
The ban on Russian athletes began at the end of July this year. And now Uja, as long as he is not finally punished for one day, he can come out as a track and field athlete to walk the catwalk, speak, carry goods and endorsements.
And even if the final punishment is down, it may only be Uja who is banned. In the British track and field team, Uja is only a small role.
Although they have not yet received the corresponding honors, the players of the Chinese athletics team do not care about this. They are currently preparing for next year's Hangzhou Asian Games. It is believed that with the strength of the Chinese men's athletics relay team, it is difficult to find an opponent in Asia.
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