“She had not been caught doping – she had been expelled from the team for being overweight.”br/br/ – embr/Russian National head coach Yury Charkovsky on the expulsion of Alena Sidko from the Russian Olympic team. She has since been caught doping. (classy coach, classy athlete)/em
From the FasterSkier archive — posts syndicated from athletes’ and coaches’ own blogs between 2004 and 2012, kept online as published. Current coverage is at fasterskier.com.