Ms. Marina Lisogor is an Ukrainian Athlete competing in the Ladies’ Team Sprint team at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
On 21 February 2014 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reported an anti-doping rule violation against the Athlete after her sample tested positive for the prohibited substance trimetazidine.
After notification the Athlete was heard for the IOC Disciplinary Commission.
After having surgery to remove her thyroid in 2004, she had been prescribed Thyroxin. In January 2013, she was prescribed Preductal (trimetazidine), by a cardiologist who was not associated with the NOCU, for fatigue thought to be due to her hypothyroid condition. She took the pills prior to the doping control, failed to mention her medication on the Doping Control Form and stated she checked the WADA list and noticed that the substance was not on the list.
Based on the above, the Disciplinary Commission unanimously concluded that the Athlete had, at the very least, been negligent, and had therefore committed an anti-doping rule violation pursuant to Article 2.1 of the World Anti-Doping Code, and Articles 2 and 12 of the Rules, in that there was the presence of the prohibited substance, trimetazidine, in her body.
Therefore on 22 February 2014 the IOC Disciplinary Commission decides:
1.) The Athlete, Ms Marina Lisogor, Ukraine, Cross-Country Skiing, is disqualified from the Ladies’ Team Sprint Classic Semifinal B event.
2.) The Athlete shall be excluded from the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014, and shall have her Olympic identity and accreditation card immediately cancelled.
3.) The Ladies’ Team Sprint Classic team, of which the Athlete was a member, is disqualified from the Ladies’ Team Sprint Classic Semifinal B event.
4.) The International Ski Federation is requested to modify the results of the above-mentioned event accordingly and to consider any further action within its own competence.
5.) This decision shall enter into force immediately.
