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The ban began on July 4, 2014, which means Dyatchin would not be able to qualify for the 10-kilometer swim at the Rio Olympics. The ban will definitely keep him out of this year&#8217;s world championships, which will serve as the first qualifying race for the Olympics. The second qualifying race is scheduled for May 2016, two months before the end of his ban.<\/p>\n<p>Because the 32-year-old will miss the next two major international competitions, he has announced his retirement from competitive swimming. &#8220;&#8221;I will not compete again, of course,&#8221; Dyatchin said in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/02\/12\/us-swimming-russia-doping-idUSKBN0LG0VQ20150212\" target=\"_blank\">a Reuters article<\/a>. &#8220;I will concentrate on organizing events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dyatchin had won two world titles in the 10K swim, first in 2003 and again in 2007. That 2007 world title enabled him to earn the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/SwimmersOfTheYear.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Swimming World Male Open Water Swimmer of the Year honor that year<\/a>. The Russian suffered a disappointing disqualification in the inaugural 10K swim at the 2008 Olympics, drawing two yellow cards for racing infractions. He returned the Olympic 10K in 2012, finishing a full 42 seconds off the medal podium in seventh place.<\/p>\n<p>Though Dyatchin had claimed accidental ingestion, he does not appear to be appealing the decision. That gives Russia yet another high-profile positive drug test from 2014 and three in less than a year. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/yuliya-efimova-banned-for-16-months-stripped-of-world-records\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yulia Efimova<\/a> is coming to the end of her 16-month ban, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/sergey-makov-suspended-two-years-for-positive-drug-test-giving-russia-two-big-bans-in-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sergey Makov<\/a> was suspended for two years last September.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also another piece of the major scandal involving Russian sports in the past year.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/russian-doping-system\/\" target=\"_blank\">A recent documentary by a German TV station<\/a>\u00a0revealed that many Russian athletes were a part of a systematic doping process involving Russian sport executives, anti-doping labs and 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