October 19, 2010 – Russian skier Yevgeny Dementiev, who won Olympic gold in the Pursuit in 2006 in Torino, plans to return to competition after he completes his two-year doping ban in August 2011, reported langd.se. Dementiev announced his retirement from the sport after he tested positive for EPO during the Tour de Ski event in Val di Fiemme in 2009. Read the langd.se story (Swedish) HERE.