LASUANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The IOC disqualified three athletes, including a bronze medalist weightlifter from Azerbaijan, above Friday because doping can the 2012 London Olympics.
Valentin Hristov was stripped of his third-place gather at the 56-kilogram class. His certain examination because oral turinabol, the anabolic steroid linked ought East Germany's doping program at the 1970s and '80s, had been announced at December.
Hristov faces a life prohibit from the International Weightlifting league because his third doping offense.
The Bulgaria-born lifter, who turns 35 above Saturday, is already serving an eight-year prohibit until December 2023 because a certain examination because nandrolone can the 2015 dirt championships at Houston. Hristov was too caught doping can the 2013 European Championships.
The bronze medal could now exist allocated by the International Olympic committee ought fourth-place finisher Tran Le Quoc Toan of Vietnam.
Two athletes from Belarus too tested certain because anabolic steroids at reanalysis of their London samples, the IOC said. Men's 800-meter runner Anis Ananenka and women's hammer thrower Alena Matoshka both failed ought attain the final of their events.
More than 100 athletes, including dozens of medalists, dine been caught at reanalysis of samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics using a more sensitive examination because steroids.
Most cases involved athletes from previous Soviet republics, and can least six were from Azerbaijan's weightlifting team.
The IOC said retests will thrive until the statute of limitations applied ought the 2012 Olympics is reached next year.
Weightlifting was attitude beneath publication by the IOC at 2017 after having can least 50 certain tests combined from the Beijing and London reanalysis.
This week, the Olympic body's executive board lifted a threaten ought transfer weightlifting from the 2024 Paris Games after accepting reforms at the sport.
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