MOSCOW (Reuters) - The doping suspensions of two Russian boxers had been doubled after Reuters pronounced that that they had fought in professional competitions all through their bans, Russia's anti-doping agency RUSADA spoke of on Friday.
Reuters pronounced in July that boxers Islam Dashaev and Alena Tokarchuk had competed in elite tournaments regardless of their bans, which is forbidden beneath foreign anti-doping rules.
RUSADA referred to on the time that it had been unaware of the cases and pledged to investigate. A Russian boxing federation official who had overseen one of the competitions additionally noted he had no knowledge that the boxer had been banned.
Dashaev, who had got a four-year suspension in 2017 for doping violations that included refusing a doping verify, has bought a different 4-yr suspension beginning in March 2021, RUSADA stated.
Tokarchuk, suspended in November 2017 for 2 years for trying out fantastic for a banned substance, will serve yet another two-yr ban starting in November 2019, the agency pointed out.
Athletes banned for doping are forbidden from taking part in any potential in competitions or activities concerning elite activity, in line with the rules of the realm Anti-Doping company (WADA).
If an athlete is discovered to have violated a doping ban, the length of the suspension can be doubled.
These lapses within the enforcement of the boxers' bans indicate that Russia, which says it has put its doping scandals in the back of it, has yet to create a tradition by which all dopers are sidelined.
Russia's participation in the 2020 Tokyo summer Olympics is in danger after WADA found inconsistencies in Moscow's laboratory facts.
Reuters reported earlier this 12 months that two Russian athletics coaches and one medical professional banned for doping have been nevertheless working with athletes.
Reporting by using Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber; editing via Christian Radnedge
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