The Court of Arbitration for Sport on Monday upheld a lifetime ban levied against Sergei Portugalov, former chief of the Russian Athletics Federation’s Medical Commission, for his role in providing illicit substances to Russian athletes.
Lausanne-based CAS upheld the ban as part of an arbitration involving the International Association of Athletics Federation and the Russian Athletics Federation, citing in a statement “clear evidence” that he violated IAAF doping rules governing possession and trafficking of prohibited substances.
In a 2015 report, the World Anti-Doping Agency wrote that Portugalov supplied performance enhancing drugs to athletes and coaches, administered doping programs and “even injected athletes himself”.
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