All medals of the Russian Paralympic are canceled: instead reward Ukrainians, details

To spread: it is a paralympiad of 11 years ago in Sochi. After the Parabiatlonist with the Russian Federation is disqualified, the Ukrainian national team will add its piggy bank to two more medals. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) acknowledged that Russian parabiatlonist Mykola Polukhin violated anti-doping rules and should be deprived of medals he received during Paralympiad-2014 in Sochi. This was reported by the IPC press service.

"The Independent Anti -Doping Tribunal of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) acknowledged that the Paralympic champion in ski races and biathlon Nikolai Polokhin violated anti -doping rules at the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in Sochi, and its individual). The IPC explained that Polukhin used forbidden trimetazidine during the extra -mint in February 2014. In races of 7. 5 and 12. 5 kilometers, Ukrainian Yuri Utkin finished fourth.

After disqualification of Polukhin, Yuri will receive two "bronze". In addition, Poloukhin won the ski races for 15 kilometers in Sochi. In these races in the second and third places were Ukrainians Anatoly Kovalevsky and Vitaliy Lukyanenko. Now, instead of "silver" and "bronze", they will receive gold and silver medals. The final decision should be made by the International Paralympic Committee.