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Cuban Yarelis Barrios about to become Olympic medallist

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    Lilian Cid
November 15, 2012
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I remember Athens, when Yumileidis Cumbá won a deserved gold medal after being confirmed the breach of Russian Irina Korzhanenko in Women Shot Put from those Games when the Olympics returned to its birthplace.

Today, the imprint of "foul play" strikes at other Russian and the ratification of the offense would be the ticket to another great Cuban athlete to have her place on the podium. It is in the same event (Women Shot Put) and it involves Darya Pishchalnikova, silver medalist in 2012 London Olympics, and our Yarelis Barrios, so far, fourth in that competition.

A little bit of history never hurts, so I tell you that Darya Pishchalnilova is 27 and has practiced this event since she was very young and with good results. However, she never dazzled, at least not for positive facts. I remember she was on newspaper’s headlines when, a few days for the start of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she was involved in a case of doping and urine samples falsification, severely condemned by the Russian Athletics Federation. In the process, she, and six other prominent athletes from that country were suspended by space of nearly three years. That decision made her lose the silver medal she had won at the World Championship in Osaka 2007 where she had thrown 65.78 meters shot, until then, her personal best.

After serving her sentence that lasted from July 2008 until April 2011, the Astrakhan born was back on track, though she only finished eleventh in the Daegu World Championships at the mercy of a poor record of 58.10 m. Then, she appeared in 2012 to surprise everybody.

In the Russian National Championship, qualifying for the 2012 London Olympics, she reached 70.69m which was the best throw in the history of the women shot put since 1992. Pishchalnikova was throwing regularly over 65 m during the entire last season and won the silver medal with 67.56m.

But as I said at the beginning of these lines, alarms rang again in this November, three months after London 2012. A new investigation has fallen on Pishchalnikova, just when the time for celebrations ended and interviews to talk about what she did and what remains to do bear fruits, for the detection of banned substances in one of the tests performed on her.

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The Russian Athletics Federation has confirmed it is investigating the case as it seems that there are indications of the use of anabolic steroids by the athlete.

It is expected that the official results will be revealed by the end of the month (November), as Nikita Kamayev, executive director of Russia’s Ani-doping Agency  ( RUSADA) said.

If suspicions are ratified, Darya must face the loss of her Olympic medal and in turn she will be separated from the sport for life, given his status as a repeat offender in such violations.

The fact nails a thorn-another one- in the history of the Olympic and stir up Russia’s shady past on previous Olympic cycle when a scandal erupted for various doping cases and doping test frauds in which, incidentally, Pishchalnikova was involved.

As we know, this decision would place Yarelis Barrios (fourth in London 2012 with 66.38m) on the podium, and with this third place she would reissue her rightful bronze of Beijing 2008.

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