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IAAF pushes for longer doping bans for 7 Russian athletes
[SIZE=-1]RIA Novosti, Russia - 14 minutes ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Thursday it had lodged an appeal seeking harsher doping bans on seven Russian female athletes at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Last month the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) handed out two-year bans to seven Russian women athletes after they were ruled to have switched urine samples before tests for performance-enhancing drugs. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The athletes, who were suspended by the international athletics association, include world 1,500-meter record holder Yelena Soboleva, two-times world 1,500-meter champion Tatyana Tomashova, hammer thrower Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, discus thrower Darya Pishchalnikova, and middle-distance runners Svetlana Cherkasova, Yulia Fomenko and Olga Yegorova. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Soboleva, Tomashova and Pishchalnikova were tipped to win medals for Russia at the Beijing Olympics [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=-1]RIA Novosti, Russia - 14 minutes ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Thursday it had lodged an appeal seeking harsher doping bans on seven Russian female athletes at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Last month the All-Russian Athletics Federation (ARAF) handed out two-year bans to seven Russian women athletes after they were ruled to have switched urine samples before tests for performance-enhancing drugs. [...][/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]The athletes, who were suspended by the international athletics association, include world 1,500-meter record holder Yelena Soboleva, two-times world 1,500-meter champion Tatyana Tomashova, hammer thrower Gulfiya Khanafeyeva, discus thrower Darya Pishchalnikova, and middle-distance runners Svetlana Cherkasova, Yulia Fomenko and Olga Yegorova. [/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]Soboleva, Tomashova and Pishchalnikova were tipped to win medals for Russia at the Beijing Olympics [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]...[/SIZE]
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