IOC Bans 11 Russian Olympic Athletes For Doping Offenses At Sochi 2014

Eleven Russian athletes have been "banned from the Olympics for life" after committing doping offenses at the Sochi 2014 Winter Games, according to the BBC. Silver Medal-winning lugers Tatyana Ivanova and Albert Demchenko are "among those to have been disqualified." The bans come as a result of the IOC investigations into the country's doping scandal. The IOC said, "To date, the number of cases opened by the [IOC] disciplinary commission [for Sochi 2014] has reached 46 after additional findings from the re-analyses. All 46 of them have been handled, of which three have been filed. As some investigations are still ongoing [notably the forensic analysis of the bottles], it cannot be excluded that there might be new elements that would justify opening further new cases and holding more hearings" (BBC, 12/22).