Gennadi Touretski is a Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n swimming coach, best known for training multiple-time Olympic gold medalists Alexander Popov

Alexander Popov

Alexander Popov may refer to:*Alexander Ivanovich Popov , Soviet physicist and inventor*Aleksandr Sergeyevich Popov , Russian footballer*Alexander Stepanovich Popov , Russian physicist...

 & Michael Klim

Michael Klim

Michael Klim OAM is a Polish-born Australian swimmer. He was born in Gdynia. He was educated at the University High School, Melbourne and Wesley College, Melbourne where he is currently employed as the College's elite Head Coach of swimming...

 through the 90's to early 2000s at the Australian Institute of Sport

Australian Institute of Sport

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 (AIS). As of early 2011, he has been working with Ian Thorpe

Ian Thorpe

Ian James Thorpe OAM , nicknamed the Thorpedo and Thorpey, is an Australian swimmer who specialises in freestyle, but also competes in backstroke and the individual medley. He has won five Olympic gold medals, the most won by any Australian, and with three gold and two silver medals, was the most...

's comeback in Switzerland.

In 2001 he was charged with possession of the banned steroid stanozolol

Stanozolol

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and suspended from coaching. The charges were later dropped and he was reinstated as a coach at the AIS.