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In a statement published on its official website, the Italian Olympic Committee has confirmed the positive'' s own anti-doping athlete committed to the Olympic Games in Sochi, this is the bobbista William Frullani. From what emerges from the note of CONI, Frullani was subjected to a February 18, and both samples were positive.
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The'' blue, former national track and field, was immediately excluded from the quartet that tomorrow will take part in the four-man bob race was replaced by Samuele Romanini.
For the'' Italy is the first positivity of a representative during a'' winter edition of the Olympic Games, and the thing that hurts the most is that it comes from a noble discipline as the bob fallen sharply in recent years, which is not needed really get this heavy blow. We hope that this unfortunate affair is a warning to the FIS and the Olympic Committee to take some serious steps, giving more space to young people and trying to breathe new life into a moribund system.
This closes a sad day for the sport blue, because in the morning we received the news of the referral by the CONI anti-doping prosecutor for the cross-country skier Valerio Checchi.
For the record we present the full statement released by the CONI:
The Olympic Committee was informed by the IOC's a case of positivity dymetylpentylamine alleging'' athlete Bob, William Frullani, a check carried out at the Olympic Village on February 18. '' The athlete asked the counter that have been made this afternoon and they have confirmed the positive, leading to its exclusion from the delegation italiana.Il Olympic Committee to define the composition of the bobsled team to 4, which was part Frullani, has called for the replacement of the'' athlete with the reserve Samuel Romanini and has been cleared by the IOC.
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