Russian Olympic biathlon champion loses Sochi doping case

FILE - In this Sunday, March 9, 2014 file photo, Russia's Olga Zaitseva celebrates her third place in the women's 12.5km mass start at the biathlon World Cup competition in Pokljuka, Slovenia. Two-time Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva lost her appeal Thursday Sept. 24, 2020, against disqualification from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for her part in Russia’s state-backed doping program. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 file photo, women's 7.5K sprint silver medalist Olga Vilukhina of Russia smiles with her medal during the medals ceremony at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Sochi, Russia. Two-time Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva lost her appeal Thursday Sept. 24, 2020, against disqualification from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for her part in Russia’s state-backed doping program and two of Zaitseva’s relay teammates at Sochi, Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova, won their appeals and had their IOC disqualifications from individual biathlon events at Sochi overturned. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 file photo, Russia's Yana Romanova during the women's biathlon 4x6k relay, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Two-time Olympic biathlon champion Olga Zaitseva lost her appeal Thursday Sept. 24, 2020, against disqualification from the 2014 Sochi Olympics for her part in Russia’s state-backed doping program and two of Zaitseva’s relay teammates at Sochi, Olga Vilukhina and Yana Romanova, won their appeals and had their IOC disqualifications from individual biathlon events at Sochi overturned. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)