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Fifth case of doping in the world of biathlon in the last twelve months and for the second time an athlete concerns of the Baltic republics. This is Edgars Piksons.
Wednesday 5 November 2014 2 minutes reading time
The 'Ibu quest''oggi announced that a urine sample taken at the thirty-one Latvian in a surprise test conducted last September 22 was positive for a metabolite of nandrolone.
The 'athlete aware of and suspended from competition, took the counter. Until then, do not potr & agrave; compete in any race.
Piksons, 31, enjoyed its heyday during the World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk 2011, when he obtained a sensational eighth place (which is a mistake to fire) in the sprint. Four of the five best results of his career Latvian arrived just during the World Championship event in Siberia.
As I said this is the fifth case of doping in biathlon circuit in the last twelve months. In December 2013, the Russian Ekaterina Iourieva, Irina Starykh and Lithuanian Karolis Zlatkauskas were found positive all''Epo. During the Olympic Games in Sochi 2014, the German Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle instead & egrave; was found positive to Dimethylamylamine.
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