From Lausanne, SUI
(Nov. 29, 2017) Three more Russian bobsledders were sanctioned this morning as part of the ongoing Oswald Commission investigation into doping and sample tampering at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. This time it involves three active athletes who have just won a gold medal in the IBSF World Cup.
Alexander Kasjanov, Alexey Pushkarev, and Ilvir Khuzin are the latest athletes to be sanctioned by the IOC. As with all other cases handled by the Oswald Commission all three athletes were found 
to be in violation of Article 2 of the IOC Anti-Doping rules, which among other things include “Evading, Refusing, or Failing to Submit a Sample Collection (2.3)” and “Tampering or Attempted Tampering with any part of Doping Control (2.5)”.
All three men have had their Olympic finish revoked. Kasjanov had finished in the top five in both two and four-man bobsled, and all three are banned from all future Olympic Games.
Kasjanov’s two-man brakeman, Maxim Belugin, is the only member of the four-man squad currently not sanctioned by the IOC.
In the most recent IBSF World Cup stop in Whistler, Kasjanov, Pushkarev, and Khuzin were all members of the four-man team who won gold ahead of Great Britain’s Lamin Deen. All three men have been provisionally suspended by the IBSF.
As with other cases, the IBSF is expected to modify event results accordingly. Once this happens, Olympic two and four-man bobsled results should look something like this:
| 2014 Olympics – Two-Man Bobsled | 2014 Olympics – Four-Man Bobsled | |||||||||
| Pos | Names | Nation | Draw | Total | Pos | Pilot | Nation | Draw | Total | |
| 1 | Hefti/Baumann | SUI-1 | 2 | 3:46.05 | 1 | Oskars Melbardis | LAT-1 | 7 | 3:40.69 | |
| 2 | Holcomb/Langton | USA-1 | 1 | 3:46.27 | 2 | Steven Holcomb | USA-1 | 2 | 3:40.99 | |
| 3 | Melbardis/Dreiskens | LAT-1 | 12 | 3:46.48 | 3 | John James Jackson | GBR-1 | 12 | 3:41.10 | |
| 4 | Kripps/Barnett | CAN-3 | 10 | 3:46.62 | 4 | Maximilian Arndt | GER-1 | 1 | 3:41.42 | |
| 5 | Spring/Lumsden | CAN-2 | 9 | 3:46.79 | 5 | Thomas Florschütz | GER-3 | 4 | 3:41.51 | |
| 6 | Friedrich/Baecker | GER-1 | 4 | 3:46.85 | 6 | Beat Hefti | SUI-1 | 11 | 3:41.75 | |
| 7 | Rush/Brown | CAN-1 | 7 | 3:46.88 | 7 | Lyndon Rush | CAN-2 | 9 | 3:41.76 | |
| 8 | Peter/Egger | SUI-2 | 14 | 3:46.96 | 8 | Francesco Friedrich | GER-2 | 8 | 3:41.80 | |
| 9 | Florschütz/Kuske | GER-2 | 8 | 3:47.00 | 9 | Edwin Van Calker | NED-1 | 14 | 3:42.69 | |
| 10 | Butner/Fogt | USA-2 | 5 | 3:47.17 | 10 | Nick Cunningham | USA-2 | 13 | 3:42.70 | |
| 11 | Cunningham/Robinson | USA-3 | 6 | 3:47.69 | 11 | Christopher Spring | CAN-1 | 5 | 3:42.84 | |
| 12 | Bertazzo/Fontana | ITA-1 | 16 | 3:47.82 | 12 | Oskars Kibermanis | LAT-2 | 16 | 3:42.98 | |
| 13 | Arndt/Rödiger | GER-3 | 11 | 3:48.20 | 13 | Nikita Zakharov | RUS-3 | 15 | 3:43.06 | |
| 14 | Kibermanis/Leiboms | LAT-2 | 15 | 3:48.52 | 14 | Jan Vrba | CZE-1 | 19 | 3:43.17 | |
| 15 | Istrate/Craicun | ROU-1 | 22 | 3:48.98 | 15 | Loic Costerg | FRA-1 | 22 | 3:43.18 | |
| 16 | Won/Seo | KOR-1 | 17 | 3:49.27 | 16 | Simone Bertazzo | ITA-1 | 17 | 3:43.45 | |
| 17 | Van Calker/van der Zijde | NED-1 | 23 | 3:49.33 | 17 | Lamin Deen | GBR-2 | 18 | 3:43.52 | |
| 18 | Costerg/Heinrich | FRA-1 | 18 | 3:49.36 | 18 | Yonjong Won | KOR-1 | 21 | 3:44.22 | |
| 19 | Servelle/Gattuso | MON-1 | 21 | 2:52.60 | 19 | Benjamin Maier | AUT-1 | 24 | 2:48.63 | |
| 20 | Maier/Sammer | AUT-1 | 19 | 2:52.72 | 20 | Heath Spence | AUS-1 | 23 | 2:48.64 | |
| 21 | Deen/Baines | GBR-1 | 25 | 2:52.73 | 21 | Thibault Alexis Godefroy | FRA-2 | 30 | 2:48.99 | |
| 22 | Vrba/Vacek | CZE-1 | 30 | 2:53.18 | 22 | Andreas Neagu | ROU-1 | 25 | 2:49.03 | |
| 23 | Kim/Jun | KOR-2 | 20 | 2:53.27 | 23 | Milan Jagnesak | SVK-1 | 28 | 2:49.44 | |
| 24 | Spence/Harvey | AUS-1 | 27 | 2:53.73 | 24 | Hiroshi Suzuki | JPN-1 | 20 | 2:49.46 | |
| 25 | Kupczyk/Mroz | POL-1 | 26 | 2:53.95 | 25 | Dawid Kupczyk | POL-1 | 26 | 2:49.49 | |
| 26 | Suzuki/Miyazaki | JPN-1 | 24 | 2:54.14 | 26 | Donghyun Kim | KOR-2 | 29 | 2:50.64 | |
| 27 | Watts/Dixon | JAM-1 | 28 | 2:55.40 | 27 | Edson Bindilatti | BRA-1 | 27 | 2:50.71 | |
| 28 | Radjenovic/Bundalo | SRB-1 | 29 | DNS | 28 | Justin Kripps | CAN-3 | 10 | 2:50.80 | |
| DSQ | Zubkov/Voevoda | RUS-1 | 3 | 3:45.39 | DSQ | Alexsandr Zubkov | RUS-1 | 3 | 3:40.60 | |
| DSQ | Kasjanov/Belugin | RUS-2 | 13 | 3:46.30 | DSQ | Alexander Kasjanov | RUS-2 | 6 | 3:41.02 | |
Full IOC Decisions in PDF form below:
IOC Decision on Alexander Kasjanov
IOC Decision on Alexey Pushkarev
IOC Decision on Ilvir Khuzin
