Estonian ski coach faces investigation in doping ring
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TALLINN, Estonia – Prosecutors in Estonia say they have opened criminal proceedings against a veteran ski coach linked to a doping ring.
Mati Alaver, who has coached elite-level cross-country skiers for four decades, is suspected of persuading skiers to use performance-enhancing drugs.
The case comes after Austrian police arrested five skiers, two of them Estonians, at the Nordic skiing world championships. Another Estonian skier, three-time Olympian Algo Karp, told the Ohtuleht newspaper that he also doped.
The case has caused a scandal in Estonia, where cross-country skiers are star athletes responsible for all of the small Baltic nation’s seven Winter Olympic medals.
Alaver was stripped of two state honours by President Kersti Kaljulaid last week after he was first linked to the Austrian arrests.
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