MOSCOW, May 5.Four doctors were disqualified for life for prescribing a method prohibited in sports, according to the website of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). In June 2019, RUSADA reported that it had revealed the use of a prohibited method (infusion) in Chuvashia. In August, an independent group was set up to investigate all the circumstances and conditions of possible anti-doping rule violations by athletes and personnel. During the course of the investigation, evidence was obtained and multiple anti-doping rule violations were established under Article 2.8 (“Administering or attempting to administer to any Athlete in-Competition any Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method, or Administering or attempting to Administer to any Athlete out-of-Competition a Prohibited Substance or Prohibited Method” banned out of competition»). «Taking into account the seriousness of this anti-doping rule violation, the Disciplinary Anti-Doping Committee of RAA RUSADA decided to ban for life the doctors of the Republican Center for Medical Prevention, Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine of the Ministry of Health of Chuvashia Yana Vladimirovna Bakhtina, Irina Evgenievna Kirillova , Kozhevnikova Tatyana Mikhailovna, Lareva Svetlana Ivanovna from the date of the hearing, namely from June 29, 2021,» the statement says. During the investigation, it was revealed that 70 athletes used the ban another method in a medical office located in the school of the Olympic reserve No. 2 in Cheboksary. As a result, 43 athletes were disqualified for periods ranging from one to two years. In relation to 23 athletes, the use of a prohibited method was proven and an anti-doping rule violation was established, but a decision was made on their innocence. In the cases of six athletes, the fact of violation was not proven — the disciplinary anti-doping committee did not see in their actions a violation of the all-Russian anti-doping rules.
