Career
She denied all knowledge of how it had happened and during the two-year ban that she has received has vowed to work with the World Anti-Doping Agency promoting sports without drugs, joining Kelli White of the United States of America who also fell foul of the same rules after traces of modafinil were found in her urine sample. In a statement she said "lieutenant’s an accident, I swear I did not take any banned substances, but I do not deny that they were tested in my samples. lieutenant was my negligence." In 2006, Kapachinskaya"s mother died, and this affected her running immensely.
In 2009, she again was in the final of 400 m in the world championships and was 6th.