The Women's 12.5 kilometre mass start
biathlon
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not tim ...
competition of the
Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at
Whistler Olympic Park
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in
Whistler, British Columbia
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on 21 February 2010.
Results
Teja Gregorin
Teja Gregorin (born 29 June 1980 in Ljubljana, SFR Yugoslavia) is a retired Slovenian biathlete.
Career
She was a member of the Slovenian biathlon team from 2002 to 2017, having been a cross-country skier before that. Her best result in the Bia ...
was the only competitor who failed the 2017 doping retests from the
2010 Winter Olympics
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. In October 2017, the
International Biathlon Union
The International Biathlon Union (IBU; german: Internationale Biathlon-Union) is the international governing body of biathlon. Its headquarters were in Salzburg, Austria, until May 2020, when the Federation moved to Anif, on the outskirts of the ...
said that her two samples tested positive for
GHRP-2
Pralmorelin (INN) (brand name GHRP Kaken 100; former developmental code names KP-102, GPA-748, WAY-GPA-748), also known as pralmorelin hydrochloride (JAN) and pralmorelin dihydrochloride (USAN
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, a banned substance which stimulates the body to produce more
growth hormone
Growth hormone (GH) or somatotropin, also known as human growth hormone (hGH or HGH) in its human form, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction, and cell regeneration in humans and other animals. It is thus important in h ...
, in samples taken the week before competition started. She was disqualified in December 2017.
References
External links
2010 Winter Olympics results: Women's 12.5 km Mass Start from https://web.archive.org/web/20091025194336/http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-20.
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Mass start is a format of starting in some racing sports such as long-distance running in sport of athletics, speed skating, long-distance cross-country skiing and biathlon.
There are usually many competitors in s ...