By Victor Kanayo
Russia’s Tatyana Tomashova has been given a 10-year ban after she was found to have violated anti-doping regulations at the 2012 Olympics, as the fallout from that Games’s shocking women’s 1,500 metres final continues.
The ban was announced by the Court of Arbitration for Sport in a statement.
Part of the statement said, “Taking into account a previous ADRV committed by Tomashova in 2008, the Sole Arbitrator determined the appropriate sanction applicable to multiple ADRVs to be the imposition of a ten-year period of ineligibility, commencing on this day.”
Tomashova has also been stripped of her silver medal from that race, a medal she was given after initially finishing fourth after the first two finishers were later banned.
The 49-year-old Tomashova, a world champion in 2003 and 2005, was one of seven Russian female athletes to receive a two-year doping ban for manipulating their drug samples in 2008.
She returned to action but has been banned again after testing positive in 2021 for anabolic steroids in re-tests of her out-of-competition samples from June 21, 2012 and July 17, 2012, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Tuesday.
