THE Court of Arbitration for Sport has stripped Russian boxer Misha Aloian of the silver medal he won at Rio 2016 for a doping offence.
CAS confirmed the decision on Thursday and announced Aloian’s results had been disqualified.
Aloian won silver in the men’s flyweight 52kg boxing division but tested positive for the banned stimulant tuaminoheptane.
“The results obtained by the athlete Misha Aloian in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, including the silver medal obtained in the Men’s -52kg boxing event on 21 August 2016, are disqualified,” a CAS statement read.
The news came just before an independent investigation revealed that over 1,000 Russian athletes in 30 Olympic and Paralympic sports benefited from systematic cover-up of doping across their country.
