Irma Makhinia won today’s Russian Championships in Krasna Polyana (HS 106). 18-year-old with jumps on 95 and 90.5 meter unexpectedly beat much more experienced Sofia Tikhonova (89 and 92m) and Irina Avvakumova (86.5 and 85m). Makhinia secured her victory with the total of 204.8 points. Tikhonova was 8.5 points behind the today’s gold medalist and the 29 years old Avvakumova ...

The news agency TASS informed that Alexandra Kustova was suspended by the Russian Ski Federation for 18 months. The reason for that was the violation of the anti-doping regulations by the young athlete. 21-year old was suspended, because she failed to provide the required information about her whereabouts and therefore missing three doping controls over the period of 12 months. ...