Four years after coming second behind a Russian drug cheat at the London Olympics, Tallent was belatedly awarded the 50km walk gold last year after Sergey Kirdyapkin was stripped of the medal. "As a clean athlete, I would like to see them banned from the Winter Olympics," he told Reuters in a phone interview on Tuesday. "I think the evidence has been pretty clear around what they did over the leadup to the last (Rio) Olympics. Last month, the IOC's own commission has banned more than 20 Russian athletes from the Olympics for life over doping violations at the 2014 Winter Games that Russia hosted in Sochi. The 15-member IOC Executive Board can opt to issue a blanket ban on Russian athletes, or allow them to compete in South Korea as neutrals.

Source: Economic Times December 05, 2017 04:07 UTC