The great disorder continues in winter sports. Two Russian athletes disqualified by the IOC for doping at the Sochi 2014 Games, and banned for life from the Olympics, participated without the slightest obstruction in the European Speed Skating Championships, during the last weekend in Kolomna, Russia . They even won medals there. Olga Fatkulina, removed from the prize list of the Sochi 2014 Games, where she won the silver medal in the 500m, won the pursuit event, associated with her compatriots Angelina Golikova and Elizaveta Kazelina. Almost equivalent success for Alexander Rumyantsev, also banned from the Games, but silver medalist at the European Championships in the men's pursuit. The two athletes were sanctioned by the IOC as part of the work of the Oswald commission on doping in Russia, but the sanction has not yet been relayed by the ISU.
— Published January 8, 2018
