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Three other athletes were also disqualified after the
re-tests.
Uzbeki Soslan Tigiev, who won a wrestling silver in the men's
freestyle 74kg event, Ukraine weightlifter Olha Korobka, second
in the +75kg category and Belarus weightlifter Andrei Rybakou,
second in the 85kg category, were among those caught using
banned substances.
Kazakh freestyle wrestler Taimuraz Tigiyev, who won silver in
the freestyle, Nastassia Novikava of Belarus, a bronze medalist
in the 53kg weightlifting event and fellow bronze medalist
Ekaterina Volkova, third in the women’s 3000m steeplechase event
were the other athletes who lost their medals.
All six failed tests for the steroid turinabol while Novikava
and Rybakou also tested positive for stanozolol, also an
anabolic steroid that boosts performance and assists in the
quicker recovery from injury.
The list of nine doping offenders released by the IOC was
completed by Spanish hurdler Josephine Nnkiruka Onyia, Cuban
long jumper Wilfredo Martinez and Azeri weightlifter Sardar
Hasanov.
A total of 98 samples have come back as positive for banned
substances in reanalysis from the 2008 and 2012 Games as the IOC
attempted to root out cheats and stop them from going to the Rio
Olympics in August.
The IOC stores samples for a decade to test with newer methods
or to analyze performance-enhancing substances that have yet to
be identified.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Pritha Sarkar)
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