Norwegian sports officials said that the International...
Norwegian sports officials said that the International Olympic Committee will decide whether top Soviet speed skater Nikolai Guliaev can participate in the Calgary Winter Olympics after having given drugs to a Norwegian skater.
That decision was made after a five-hour meeting among President Viktor Blinov of the Soviet Skating Union, chairman Rune Gerhardsen of the Norwegian Skating Union, and Hans Skaset, president of the Norwegian Federation of Sports Associations.
Blinov said Guliaev was unaware of the contents of a parcel that Soviet team doctor Valery Smetanin had asked him to deliver to a Norwegian skater, Bjoern Nyland, in Austria and pass on in Norway to another skater, Stein Krosby.
Nyland got suspicious and handed the package to team officials, who found that it contained 790 Soviet-produced pills.
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