Disability Sport
Russian Paralympian stripped of medals 11 years after doping violation
Russian Paralympian Nikolay Polukhin has been stripped of medals for violating anti-doping rules – 11 years after he won them at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi.
The International Paralympic Committee’s (IPC) independent anti-doping tribunal found Para-biathlon athlete Polukhin provided urine samples that had been tampered with during the Games, an event overshadowed by Russian state-sponsored doping.
DNA evidence showed that Polukhin provided ‘clean’ urine during the Games that could be ‘swapped’ with samples that would have tested positive for trimetazidine (TMZ).
TMZ is a medication that increases blood flow to the heart and stimulates the metabolism of glucose, which can improve endurance.
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