The skater’s wife and manager Yana Rudkovskaya has denied information about the ban on his participation in the Sochi Olympics.

(Kazan, August 25, Tatar-Inform). Russian Olympic gold and silver medalist, skater Yeugeny Pluschenko, will not take part in the Sochi Olympics in 2014 after failing to appeal a June decision by the International Skating Union (ISU), which punished him for skating in exhibitions without permission from the Russian Federation. Pluschenko skated in two exhibitions the week after he withdrew from the worlds in March, which runs counter to ISU's eligibility rules.

Pluschenko did not appeal in the allotted 21 days, and the ISU said on Monday its decision was final. The Russian skater is now ineligible for “any ISU activity,” including the Olympics, world championships and Grand Prix series, it said.

Meanwhile, his wife and manager, Yana Rudkovskaya, has denied information about the ban on his participation in the Sochi Olympics.

“The International Skating Union (ISU)’s rules only stipulate the disqualification due to doping problems,” she is quoted as saying by Itar-Tass.

According to Rudkovskaya, her husband will ask the ISU to restore his amateur status in the nearest future. “The Russian Figure Skating Federation is ready to support Yeugeny’s appeal.

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