Olympic skier doping scandal

19th March 2010

Kornelia Marek, a member of Poland’s successful Winter Olympics squad, was found guilty on Tuesday of using the banned EPO performance enhancing drug when scientists confirmed her B sample had also come back positive. The scandal has tarnished the memories of the team’s most successful ever Games and enquiries are now underway to establish the scale of the problem and, crucially, who provided and administered the banned substance.

When the A sample tested positive last week, Marek categorically protested her innocence, telling reporters, “I didn’t take anything, I’ve nothing to feel guilty about.” But all hopes that there might have been a mistake disappeared when the indepen ...