LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The Russia men's quadruple sculls team was disqualified from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics for a doping violation, and replaced by New Zealand on Thursday.
The banned substance trimetazidine was found in a urine sample given by rower Sergei Fedorovtsev in an out-of-competition test on May 17. He competed a week later at the final Olympic qualifying regatta in Switzerland, where Russia finished first to qualify for Rio.
As Fedorovtsev, who won a gold medal in quadruple sculls at the 2004 Athens Olympics, provided a positive doping test, the World Rowing Federation said "the results of all competitions in which the rower participated after 17 May 2016 are therefore automatically disqualified.