Related cases:
- IOC 2016 IOC vs Vera Ganeeva
January 27, 2017 - CAS 2018_O_5704 IAAF vs RusAF & Vera Ganeeva
January 31, 2019
In 2016, Professor Richard McLaren issued two reports about systemic doping in Russia. These reports identified a significant number of Russian athletes who were involved in, or benefitted from, the doping schemes and practices that he uncovered.
Hereafter in January 2019 the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) recovered the internal database of the Moscow Laboratory (LIMS). Following investigation of allegations of organized doping practices, and in particular of the LIMS, WADA provided international federations with investigation reports on the athletes implicated in these organized doping practices.
These investigation reports revealed that multiple prohibited substances has been established in the sample of the Athlete Vera Ganeyeva. This sample was provided by the Athlete in 2012 and thereupon deliberately reported as negative by the Moscow laboratory.
As a result in June 2022 the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU), on behalf of World Athletics, reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete for the use of the prohibited substances Boldenone, Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (Turinabol), Desoxymethyltestosterone and Oxandrolone in 2012.
After notification the Athlete submitted that she denied the violation and that she was already sanctioned twice. Thereupon she failed to respond to the AIU communications.
Without the Athlete's response the AIU deems that she has waived her right to a hearing, to have accepted the asserted anti-doping rule violation and the sanction rendered by the AIU. The AIU considers that there are aggravating circumstances present in this case that justifies the imposition of a more severe sanction.
Further the AIU determines that the Athlete previously was sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of 2 years from 29 March 2017 until 28 March 2019 and again for 2 years from 2 July 2018 to 1 July 2020. In the present case the AIU shall count the present anti-doping rule violation as single first violation together with the 2012 first violations.
Because the Athlete already had received a total 4 year sanction for the first violations the AIU deems that her present 2012 violation can't be subject to a more severe sanction. As a result no additional period of ineligibility can be imposed on the Athlete for the present violation. However the AIU rules that there are indeed grounds for the disqualificaton of the Athlete's results from 2012 until 2016.
Therefore the AIU decides on 25 May 2023 that the Athlete has committed an additional anti-doping rule violation in 2012. All her results from 4 July 2012 until 2 July 2016 are disqualified with all of the resulting consequences, including forfeiture of any medals, titles, points, prize money and prizes.
