The disciplinary body of the International Olympic Committee had stripped 43 Russian athletes of their 2014 Sochi Olympics
results and medals over doping violations, and banned them from the Games for life. February 1st, the Court of Arbitration
for Sport acquitted 28 of the Russian athletes previously ruled guilty of doping violations by the IOC body. These
athletes’ 2014 Olympic results were restored to them.
Russian Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov personally handed awards to three staff members of the Russian Federal
Center of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation Centre for their contribution to
the work on restoring to the Russian athletes their rightful Sochi Olympics medals.
“Three colleagues of ours from the Federal Forensic Testing Centre received awards and an official commendation from
the Ministry for the enormous amount of highly professional work they did in support of the defence of the Russian
athletes in the international court of arbitration for sport”, said the Minister at a ministerial college meeting
on Friday. “Owing to their work, we have been able to restore the rightfully earned Olympic medals that our athletes
won in Sochi”.
Why did the Swiss attorneys, who administered the defence of the Russian athletes at the IOC, request the assistance
of the Russian Federal Forensic Testing Centre? What was required of the participating parties at the hearings of
the IOC Disciplinary Commission, chaired by Denis Oswald? What meaningful forensic facts were revealed at the hearings?
And how did events unfold thereafter? Finally, how did the hearings go at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Geneva?
We have recorded the discussion of the Center’s employees, in which they discussed their role in the defence of the
Russian athletes vis-à-vis the IOC Disciplinary Commission and in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland,
specially for
LF Academy:
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Svetlana Smirnova, Director of the Russian Federal Center of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice
of the Russian Federation (moderator);
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Georgy Omelyaniuk, Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Center of Forensic Science of the Ministry
of Justice of the Russian Federation;
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Alexei Bushin, Head of the Forensic Trace Testing Laboratory, Russian Federal Center of Forensic Science
of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation;
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Evgenia Burova, Leading Public Forensic Examiner, Forensic Trace Testing Laboratory, Russian Federal
Center of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.
All this is soon coming to you in the form of an LF Academy video lecture on
www.LFAcademy.ru
