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Efimova cleared of meldonium charge
MOSCOW: Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova is free to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio after the World Swimming Federation (FINA) dropped doping charges against her,
Published on: Jul 13, 2016, 08:20:45 IST
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MOSCOW: Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova is free to compete at the Olympic Games in Rio after the World Swimming Federation (FINA) dropped doping charges against her, her lawyer said on Tuesday. “We received an official notification from FINA just an hour ago that all the charges [against Efimova] had been dropped. She is free to compete. No punishment has followed,” her lawyer, Artem Patsev, told the R-Sport news agency. Efimova, a bronze medallist from the 2012 London Olympics and a four-time world champion announced in March that a doping test from February had shown she had taken the banned drug meldonium.
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