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4 athletes stripped of medals from 2008 Beijing Games

Russian Federation had already been stripped off the relay medal earlier this month when another runner, Anastasia Kapachinskaya, tested positive.

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In the latest move, the International Olympic Committee disqualified Russian bronze-medalist weightlifter Nadezda Evstyukhina, silver-medalist weightlifter Marina Shainova, and Tatyana Firova, who finished second with teammates in the 4x400m track event. The Iocsaid she tested positive for stanozolol and turinabol.

Turinabol and erythropoietin were found in the sample given by Evstyukhina, a a three-time world champion.

Five of those named are weightlifters, with runner Tatyana Firova – who was part of the 4x400m relay team which finished second and also took sixth place in the individual 400m event – the sixth.

Toghrul Asgarov and Sharif Sharifov won a gold medal each at the London Games, while Khetag Gazyumov secured bronze medals during both Beijing and London Olympics.

Cuba’s Yordanis Borrero was fourth in the men’s 69kg division but could now become an Olympic bronze medallist, with Damaris Aguirre of Mexico set to take bronze in the women’s 75kg category.

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Eight years later, more athletes continue to be stripped of medals from the BeijingOlympics because of positive doping tests. Dudoglo tested positive for stanozolol, Zairov for turinabol. They were among the 98 positive cases recorded in the retesting of more than 1,000 samples from Beijing and the 2012 London Olympics.

Beijing 2008