A Russian cross-country skier pounded accusations of doping after a sensational gold-medal performance at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Alexander Bolshunov, 25, conveniently won the males’s skiathlon on Sunday, with more than a min in between him and his rivals.
Speaking to reporters after the race, Bolshunov struck out at a reporter that hinted at doping when asking about his prominence in the race.
“Talk of doping makes me ill,” Bolshunov claimed. “We have clean sportspersons, tidy professional athletes who are at the Olympics that do doping tests nearly daily.”
“I believe it’s incorrect to ask us these concerns– you don’t attain these outcomes suddenly, you do not become an Olympic champ, because it takes years and years of training,” Bolshunov continued.
Russian athletes are contending under the Russian Olympic Committee banner after being outlawed from completing under their nationwide flag following discoveries of a mass state-sponsored doping program prior to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Bolshunov, who won three silver medals as well as a bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, slammed the reporter for his doping implications, rather inviting him to see the work as well as come called for to complete at the Olympics.
“The training sessions are really hard, believe me, as well as after you have actually seen how we educate, I think you and your audience will certainly never ever ask these concerns once more,” he stated.
Russia, whose professional athletes are among the faves at this Winter Games, has actually repeatedly denied the allegations of doping by the World Anti-Doping Association.
“Russia has actually been and continues to be fully commited to traditional Olympic values,” President Vladimir Putin stated in a meeting with China Media Group head of state as well as principal editor Shen Haixiong last Thursday.
“We oppose the politicization of attempts as well as sporting activities to utilize this as a tool of stress, unfair competition or discrimination,” claimed the Russian head of state.
