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| - Alexander Loginov will not take part in Sunday's 15k mass-start event at the biathlon world championships, the sport's Russian federation has announced, following an anti-doping raid by Italian police on the Russian team's hotel. In a statement, the country's federation said that Loginov was not in the "right frame of mind" to take part in the event "due to recent events". Russia's hotel in Rasen-Antholz (Rasun-Anterselva in Italian) was raided in the early morning on Saturday at the behest of prosecutors in Bolzano, Italian police said. On Saturday, Russia's biathlon chief Vladimir Drachev said the raid targeted Loginov, who won 10 kilometre sprint gold on February 15, and his personal coach Alexander Kasperovich, and came after a request from a International Biathlon Union member. Drachev added that the search was "linked to the fact that... Kasperovich was using another person's accreditation". Despite the raid, Loginov -- whose sprint gold was his first ever in the worlds -- took part in Saturday's 4x7.5km relay, in which Russia finished fourth. The 28-year-old served a two-year ban for using the banned blood booster EPO from November 2014 to November 2016. Russia has been at the centre of a long running doping scandal that began with the 2015 revelation of long-term institutional doping involving senior Russian officials, secret agents and trafficked urine vials. In December, the World Anti-Doping Agency imposed a fresh four-year ban covering this year's Tokyo Olympics. Russia disputed the suspension, with the case due to be heard by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. mp/td/spm
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