{"id":100349,"date":"2021-07-14T21:59:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T21:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100349"},"modified":"2021-07-15T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T01:00:12","slug":"two-olympic-swimmers-banned-for-doping-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100349","title":{"rendered":"Two Olympic swimmers banned for doping violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Russian swimmers set to compete at the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Tokyo Olympics\">Tokyo Olympics<\/a> were provisionally suspended on Wednesday for anti-doping violations by world governing body FINA.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandr Kudashev and Veronika Popova Andrusenko were suspended based on evidence supplied by the World Anti-Doping Agency, according to FINA. It said the evidence came from WADA&#x27;s examination of materials recovered from the former Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, including the lab&#x27;s management information system.<\/p>\n<p>Kudashev and Andrusenko were set to compete for the non-federation Russians. The Russian federation is barred from competing as a country in Tokyo because of ongoing doping issues found by WADA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fina1908\/status\/1415433596152827913\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/fina1908\/status\/1415433596152827913<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andrusenko competed for Russia in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics in several events. The 30-year-old swimmer also competed in the International Swimming League in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Kudashev would have been competing in his first Olympics. The 25-year-old swimmer was a gold medalist at the 2019 World University Games.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"87422c73-a85f-4728-b64e-6fd19e4191fb\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/87422c73-a85f-4728-b64e-6fd19e4191fb\" alt=\"Veronika Andrusenko is seen during the ladie&#x27;s 200m freestyle final at the 2021 Russian National Swimming Championship\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;FINA is grateful to WADA for its diligence in helping to ensure clean competition at Tokyo 2020,&quot; new FINA president Husain Al-Musallam said in a statement. &quot;FINA remains fully committed to protecting clean athletes and promoting clean competition at Tokyo 2020.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>FINA&#x27;s out of competition testing and test distribution planning are handled by the International Testing Agency, which also handles the Tokyo 2020 anti-doping program on behalf of the IOC.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Two Russian swimmers set to compete at the Tokyo Olympics were provisionally suspended on Wednesday for anti-doping violations by world governing body FINA. Alexandr Kudashev <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100349\" title=\"Two Olympic swimmers banned for doping violations\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100351,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100349\/revisions\/100351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}