Babalola Oluwatomiwa
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Russia Olympics Committee have banned European 800m silver medallist Irina Maracheva for two years for doping, while race walker, Anna Lukyanova, who won silver at the 2010 World Junior Championships, also got the same penalty.
Maria Nikolaeva and Yelena Nikulina were handed four-year suspensions for runners each as Russia hopes to flush bad eggs out before the summer Olympic games in Brazil.
ROC are yet to release adequate details about the bans after publishing the names of the athletes who got whipped by the federation.
Russia are still suspended by the IAAF following the fallout of a damaging report that made allegations of state-sponsored doping in the country.
Russia will only be reinstated if it fulfils strict criteria, including compliance with all World Anti-Doping Agency and IAAF anti-doping rules.
An IAAF inspection team is due to meet Russia's new athletics chief, Dmitry Shlyakhtin, in Moscow on Monday.
Maracheva finished third behind Britain's Lynsey Sharp at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki but was upgraded to silver when Russia's Yelena Arzhakova was stripped of her gold medal for doping.
Scotland's Sharp was awarded the gold.
According to the Russian news agency TASS, the decision to ban the four athletes was taken by the interim co-ordinating committee of the ROC based on the documents received from the IAAF. BBC
Maria Nikolaeva and Yelena Nikulina were handed four-year suspensions for runners each as Russia hopes to flush bad eggs out before the summer Olympic games in Brazil.
ROC are yet to release adequate details about the bans after publishing the names of the athletes who got whipped by the federation.
Russia are still suspended by the IAAF following the fallout of a damaging report that made allegations of state-sponsored doping in the country.
Russia will only be reinstated if it fulfils strict criteria, including compliance with all World Anti-Doping Agency and IAAF anti-doping rules.
An IAAF inspection team is due to meet Russia's new athletics chief, Dmitry Shlyakhtin, in Moscow on Monday.
Maracheva finished third behind Britain's Lynsey Sharp at the 2012 European Championships in Helsinki but was upgraded to silver when Russia's Yelena Arzhakova was stripped of her gold medal for doping.
Scotland's Sharp was awarded the gold.
According to the Russian news agency TASS, the decision to ban the four athletes was taken by the interim co-ordinating committee of the ROC based on the documents received from the IAAF. BBC
