The latest batch takes the total of positive tests to 60 from 1,243 reanalysed samples. Six medallists from the 2008 Beijing Olympics were among nine competitors to fail drug tests as part of an International Olympic Committee campaign of retesting stored samples, it was announced Wednesday.The list of athletes to have their medals stripped includes three weightlifters — Ukraine’s Olha Korobka (second in the women’s 75kg category), Belarus’s Nastassia Novikava (third in the 53kg women) and Andrei Rybakou (second in the men’s 85kg).Wrestlers Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan (second in the 74kg men) and Kazakhstan’s Taimuraz Tigiyev (second in the 96kg …read more
Source: Pulse Nigeria
