Russian Margarita Vasileva was banned by IBU, for missed 3 doping-tests. And now IBU announced, that all results Vasileva in relays was canceled.
So that Russia lost some points for two relays and sprint - 220 for relay Canmore, 35 for sprint Solt-Lake, and 135 for mixed relay. Total lost points = 390. Russia go down to 6th position in Nation Cup, and have quota 5 women.
Yesterday, at IBU Congress in Munich, the president of RBU ask the speech, and said: «I can see no reason, why the question of recovery RBU couldn't be considered today», and puzzled other members of the delegation, and president of IBU Olle Dallin.
It needs 35 votes «pros», but it got just 19 pros, and 24 cons.