Aerial skier Lydia Lassila has welcomed the IOC's decision to ban Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics and all but declared her own sport a doping-free zone.
In an elaborate operation at the Sochi Games of 2014, Russian officials tampered with more than 100 urine samples to hide steroid use. Twenty five Russian athletes have been banned so far and at least 11 medals will be re-allocated.
Lassila says she is shocked by the depths Russia went to in order to top the medal count four years ago.
But she is all for the punishment.
"(The IOC) have got the evidence. The sanction has to be tough; the punishment has to be tough. There has to be a deterrent," she told AAP from Finland.
"I think leading into Rio there just wasn't much time (for a Summer Olympics ban). They (the IOC) didn't have all the evidence and all the hearings.
"I think what they have come up with is quite fair."
Australia's winter sports strengths typically lie with judged sports such as aerial skiing, moguls and snowboard halfpipe and Lassila said she hadn't heard of any doping issues there.
"I don't know how much it will affect the freestyle group," she said.
"I only know aerial skiers and to my knowledge none of them have been named as having taken part in doping or who have had past sanctions for doping.
"In our sport it (doping) is so far from our minds. Particularly in our team it is a no go zone. We don't even bring it up.
"You've still got to put your jumps down on the day and I don't think there is any kind of drug that is going to do that."
Lassila, an Olympic gold and bronze medallist, is aiming to become the first Australian woman to compete at five winter Games.
The 35 year-old said she would skip the opening World Cup rounds in China and only compete in a select number of events in the lead-up to her final Olympics.
