Olympics: Team Slovenia happy with results, failed doping test leaves black mark

National Olympic Committee President Bogdan Gabrovec said that there was no way Slovenia could have pulled off another Sochi, when the team won eight medals, a Slovenian Olympic record.

Gabrovec, as well as retired cross-country skier and Olympic medallist Petra Majdič, believe that high rankings by young athletes at the games were reason for optimism.

Majdič praised the cross-country team, as having made a great step forward. "Anamarija was phenomenal," she said, referring to Lampič, who placed sixth in team sprint event alongside Alenka Čebašek.

Team Slovenia head Franci Petek, a former ski jumper and the first athlete to bear the flag of an independent Slovenia at the Olympics in 1992, said that the medals earned by biathlete Jakov Fak (silver in 15-km mass start) and snowboarder Žan Košir (bronze in parallel giant slalom) were "gigantic".

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