Three more Russian bobsleighers were named and shamed for doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics by the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday. Alexander Kasy'anov, fourth in the two-man bobsleigh, Aleksei Pushkarev and Ilvir Khuzin, both fourth in the four-man bobsleigh, had their results annulled and were given lifetime Olympic bans.
The trio were punished following ongoing hearings by an IOC commission into allegations of state-sponsored doping in Russia at the 2014 Games, hosted by Russia. In the past week, Alexander Zubkov, Aleksei Negodailo and Dmitrii Trunenkov have all been stripped of their four-man bobsleigh gold medal with Russia losing the team title.
Zubkov also had his two-man title scrubbed from the record books. Wednesday's latest sanctions brings to 19 the number of Russian Olympians punished on the recommendation of the commission headed by Swiss sports official Denis Oswald. In a statement from its Lausanne headquarters the IOC announced that "more hearings concerning other athletes will be held over the next few weeks".
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