GSHC's forward Kevin Romy, who sustained a concussion after a heavy hit against the head by Kazakhstan's forward Nikolai Antropov at this year's World Championship in Minsk and therefore missed the remainder of the the tournament, is meanwhile on his way back.
Antropov was assessed a match penalty by the game officials and served an automatic one-game suspension in his team’s last game against Finland. The IIHF has added a further suspension of two games for a total of three games, which will be served in the first two games of the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship.
Furthermore, the IIHF Disciplinary Committee has dropped the case of U20-Swiss international Anthony Rouiller. EHC Biel's defender had to deal with doping accusations after the substance Clucocorticosteroids/budesonide metabolite 16a-OH-Prednisolone (classified under the World Anti-Doping Code Prohibited List) was found in a sample from him during the 2014 IIHF World Junior Championship.
Rouiller declared in the doping control form that he had used a nasal spray containing cortisone, which according to his doctor was prescribed because of atypical diathesis and multifactorial chronic rhinopathy/rhinoinsunitis.
The use of Clucocorticosteroids, like the substance found in the sample, is prohibited (in competition) when the substance is administered by oral, intravenous, intramuscular or rectal routes. Because the substance was administered nasally by a spray, the presence of the substance in Rouiller's sample does not constitute an anti-doping violation. Therefore the Swiss defender was not sanctioned and the case finally dropped.
