Russia facing rowing ban?

NavigationHazard · Post by **NavigationHazard** » February 7th, 2008, 6:06 am

Here's the lead from a BBC News story this morning of interest:

BBC Sport wrote:Russia are at serious risk of a ban from all rowing, including this year's Olympics, after more of their athletes were found guilty of drug offences.
The International Rowing Federation (Fisa) has banned Anastasia Fatina and Anastasia Karabelshchikova, two members of the 2007 Russian women's eight team.

Last year, three other members of Russia's squad were also banned.

"We may now consider a total ban of the Russian Rowing Federation for a period of up to four years," read a statement....

For the full story see http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic ... 231661.stm

ancho · Post by **ancho** » February 7th, 2008, 7:54 am

It was not really a "drug offence", but an illegal way of administration.

But it seems that they have a nice bunch of incompetent people over there...

Not good for the sport!

ckaiserca · Post by **ckaiserca** » February 7th, 2008, 8:46 pm

ancho wrote:It was not really a "drug offence", but an illegal way of administration.

Nope, it was doping.

BBC Sports wrote:The athletes were identified through DNA analysis as having intravenously infused substances for a non-legitimate acute medical reason.

kirbyt · Post by **kirbyt** » February 7th, 2008, 9:32 pm

And they're both named Anastasia, that's just wrong.

Kirby