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Lesson Learned From Russian Olympic Track and Field Delegates

 

by Bidz dela Cruz

 

In Monte Carlo, Monaco, seven Russian female athletes, including an indoor world record holder and a two-time world champion, were provisionally suspended Thursday by the IAAF for doping a screening process.

 

1,500-meter race world record setter, Yelena Soboleva was one of the seven charged for a fraudulent substitution of urine which is both a prohibited method and also a form of tampering with the doping control process.

 

Tatyana Tomashova, a two-time world 1,500 champion, was also suspended along with middle-distance runners Yulia Fomenko, Svetlana Cherkasova and Olga Yegorova, and hammer thrower Gulfiya Khanafeyeva and discus thrower Darya Pishchalnikova.

 

According to the Web site of the European Athletics Federation, Soboleva, Khanafeyeva and Pishchalnikova were on the Russian team's roster for the Beijing Olympics.