Biathlon: ten years later, Germany covers itself in gold
Erik Lesser, Daniel Boehm, Arnd Peiffer and Simon Schempp will have to make room in their trophy case. On Monday, the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected the appeal of Russian biathletes Evgeny Ustyugov and Svetlana Sleptsova, who were convicted in a doping case dating from 2012 to 2015. A decision that annuls the results and medals won by the athletes during this period.
The four members of the German relay team, silver medalists at the Sochi Games (Russia), thus find themselves on the highest step of a podium completed by Austria and Norway. “While the celebrations and emotions provided by an Olympic victory are lost forever, justice has now been served. We congratulate our athletes on this success and look forward to seeing more in the future,” declared the German biathlon organization on its Instagram account.
Ten years later, a retrospective medal ceremony will be organized in the coming weeks, similar to what was done by Martin Fourcade and his teams during the Paris Olympics. Indeed, last August, in front of the Eiffel Tower, the IOC reallocated the gold and silver Olympic medals for the team figure skating event of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
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