The wrestler of the Greco-Roman style Alexander Chekharkin lost the right to the silver medal of the World Cup in 2017 due to a positive doping test. This was told by RIA Novosti, the president of the Russian Wrestling Federation (FSBD) Mikhail Mamiashvili. According to Mamiashvili, the athlete suffered serious injuries of the spine and knee joint.

"Somewhere in the complex of these measures for restoration, either did not register a therapeutic exception, or something else. This is all our terrible laxity, "- complained the president of the FSBR. In August last year, Czecherkin took second place at the World Cup in Paris in the weight category up to 75 kg. At the Olympics in Phenchhane, the curler Alexander Krushelnytsky and his wife Anastasia Bryzgalova, who won bronze in the double mix, were deprived of medals because they found in the blood of the athlete a record number of prohibited meldonia.