Six members of the Sochi Olympic women’s hockey team — including its captain and leading scorer — were banned from the Olympics for life by the IOC.
The Russian women’s team that lost in the Sochi Olympic quarterfinals was also retroactively disqualified.
The IOC announced the decision Tuesdy as part of its ongoing sanctions against Russian athletes committing doping violations at the Sochi Winter Games.
Captain and leading scorer Yekaterina Smolentseva, a four-time Olympian, was among the six players banned.
The others were Inna Dyubanok, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Yekaterina Pashkevich, Anna Shibanova and Galina Skiba.