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Former finalist Marin Cilic made a winning start to the Rotterdam Open after seeing off Denis Istomin on Monday.Second seed Cilic, a 2014 finalist at the Ahoy stadium, posted a 7-6 (7-5) 6-4 victory to leave Istomin without a win at the event for a third consecutive year.The 2014 US Open winner, who finished runner-up to Tomas Berdych two years ago, hopes to go one better this year and also emulate his coach Goran Ivanisevic, who won the event 20 years ago. To win here would be a huge honour but the tournament is tough, he said. I can only go step by step, there is no other way. But I will be pushing myself hard to try and win it.Cilic plundered 10 aces against the 29-year-old and never faced a break point.It was a tough, mental challenge, the 13th-ranked winner said. The first set was very close and the second was a mental battle. I was lucky to pull it through.World No 87 Ivan Dodig carried on his fine form, having come through weekend qualifying, to record a 6-3 7-6 (7-4) defeat of seventh-seeded Benoit Paire.Paire, one of seven French players in the draw, committed well over 50 unforced errors in what was a frustrating afternoon.Jiri Vesely won an all-Czech battle in the first round as he defeated Lukas Rosol 6-4 6-2 while Croatian younsgter Borna Coric beat home hope Thiemo de Bakker 7-6 (11-9) 4-6 6-3.Frenchman Richard Gasquet is the top seed in the event after Roger Federer pulled out after undergoing knee surgey.Gasquet comes to the Netherlands in tip-top form having collected a 13th career title after winning in Montpellier at the weekend.Watch the ATP ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam all this week on Sky Sports 3 HD - your home of tennis. 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Clarksons actions one night earlier, leaping off the bench in defence of Kessel during a pre-season game against the Buffalo Sabres, will cost him the first 10 games of the regular season.RIO DE JANEIRO -- Russia was stripped of a relay gold medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, after one of its female runners tested positive for steroids in a reanalysis of her doping samples.Sprinter Yulia Chermoshanskaya tested positive for two drugs -- stanozolol and turinabol -- and has been retroactively disqualified and, along with her teammates, stripped of the gold medal in the womens 4x100-meter relay, the International Olympic Committee said.Chermoshanskaya was also disqualified from the 200 meters, in which she finished eighth.Belgium stands to be upgraded to the relay gold, with Nigeria moving up to silver and Brazil to bronze.The IOC asked the IAAF to modify the results and consider any further sanctions against Chermoshanskaya, who is no longer competing.The three other Russians runners in the relay final were Yulia Gushchina, Alexandra Fedoriva and Evgeniya Polyakova. Under IAAF rules, an entire relay team loses its medals if one of the runners tests positive.The Belgian runners in line to get gold are Olivia Borlee, Hanna Marien, Elodie Ouedraogo and Kim Gevaert.The United States did not make the relay final after dropping the baton in the heats. The Jamaican and British teams dropped the baton in the final.The IOC said Chermoshanskaya claimed in a written statement that she had been injured ahead of the Beijing Games and had been receiving injections on medical advice. The IOC said she should have declared those medicationns at the time.ddddddddddddTurinabol and stanozolol are traditional steroids that go back decades. Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson tested positive for stanozolol at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and he was stripped of the gold medal in the 100 meters.Tuesdays decision was another black eye for Russia. The countrys track and field team was banned from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics over allegations of state-sponsored doping. Investigations are continuing into wider systematic doping in Russia involving dozens of other summer and winter Olympic sports.Using enhanced techniques, the IOC has retested more than 1,000 doping samples from the 2008 Beijing Games and 2012 London Olympics to catch those who evaded detection at the time. A total of 98 athletes have been caught.The IOC stores doping samples for 10 years to allow them to be reanalyzed when improved tests become available, which means cheats can be caught years later. For the Beijing and London retests, the IOC used a method that can detect use of steroids going back weeks and months, rather than days.Chermoshanskaya is the seventh athlete so far who has been formally disqualified by the IOC as a result of the Beijing and London retesting program. 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