OlympicTalk · Aug 3, 2018
Russian track and field stars barred from competition
Anna Chicherova, the 2012 Olympic high jump champion, and Danil Lysenko, the world No. 2 men’s high jumper, have both been barred from international competition, according to Russian media and the IAAF.
Chicherova had her application to compete as a neutral athlete denied by the IAAF, according to Russian media citing the Russian track and field federation.
Chicherova had been suspended for two years since 2016 and held out of the Rio Olympics after a retest of a 2008 Olympic doping sample came back positive for an anabolic steroid.
That failed test led to her 2008 Olympic bronze medal being stripped, but Chicherova remained 2011 World and 2012 Olympic gold medalist.