The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accused former volleyball players of the Novosibirsk Lokomotiv and the Russian national team Pavel Moroz and Alexander Butko of doping in 2014. Banned substances were found in the doping samples of athletes at the Final Six of the Russian Championship in 2014, TASS reports.
Secretary General of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation Alexander Yaremenko said that in the 2013/14 season, Moroz and Butko played on the same team. The sample in question was taken in Yekaterinburg at the “Final Six”. The test results were not published immediately.
“It is unlikely that anything else will be revealed, the statute of limitations, of course, has been raised to 10 years. We have this information for almost half a year”– said Yarmenko on September 19.
He said that all the necessary measures have already been taken. Now the federation is waiting for the decision of the anti-doping commission of the International Volleyball Federation.
“The decision should have been made a long time ago, but so far they are silent, sent a reminder to them last week with a request to make a decision quickly,” Yaremenko said.
President of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation Stanislav Shevchenko, in an interview with Sport Express, said that there were no official documents on this case. Shevchenko refused to comment on WADA’s accusations without the necessary documents.
