US EditionItalian Biathlete Passler Tests Positive for Doping, Source Says
Rebecca Passler tested positive for letrozole in an out-of-competition doping test and was suspended before her first event at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
- On Monday, Rebecca Passler was provisionally suspended from the Milan Cortina Olympics after testing positive for letrozole in an out-of-competition sample taken ahead of Friday's opening.
- Passler's World Cup experience provides background; letrozole, used to treat breast cancer and control steroid effects, was found in her sample ahead of the February 6 Olympics.
- The 24-year-old Passler was due to compete in Anterselva yesterday; her uncle Johann Passler is an Olympic medalist who took bronzes in 1988, and she has yet to win a major championship medal.
- The Biathlon Integrity Unit said the case will be handled by the Italian anti-doping agency after Passler's positive test prompted a provisional suspension.
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With Russia out, the doping talk in biathlon had died down. But four days before the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Italy, the games had their first doping case. – I think we need to test smarter, Swedish star Sebastian Samuelsson told DN.
The host of the games, Italy, was left without biathlete Rebecca Passler, who tested positive for letrozole and methanol, just before the opening ceremony.
Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler failed a doping test before the start of the Winter Olympics in Corina and Milan.
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Daily FinlandBiathlete Passler tests positive ahead of Winter Olympics
ANTERSELVA, Italy, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- The International Biathlon Union (IBU) announced on Monday that its Integrity Unit has received confirmation from Italian National Anti-Doping Organization (NADO Italia) that Italian biathlete Rebecca Passler has committed an anti-doping rule violation.
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