It did not reveal the names of the eight sports people but said they participated in three different types of sport.
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Last week the International Olympic Committee announced that up to 31 athletes could be banned from competing in Brazil this summer after the reanalysis of 454 samples from the 2008 Games in Beijing found 31 drug cheats.
Almost two dozen athletes from six countries and in five sports who competed in the 2012 London Olympics have tested positive for banned substances after doping samples were rechecked.
Athletics’ world governing body the IAAF has already banned Russian Federation from worldwide competition, after a World Anti-Doping Agency investigation revealed systematic doping among its athletes, and its ruling Council will meet on June 17 to decide whether they should be allow to compete in Brazil.
Last week, Russian state media announced that 14 of the 31 athletes the International Olympic Committee suspects of doping at the Beijing Games were from Russia.
The IOC said it is continuing to reanalyse the samples with the latest technology, adding that more results could come out in the next few weeks.
The IOC has said the reanalysis programme is ongoing, with the possibility of more results in the weeks to come.
Lord Coe, the architect of London 2012 who is now president of the International Association of Athletics Federations and chairman of the BOA, said: “The London 2012 Games were an awesome event with 10,500 athletes competing across 26 sports”.
Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov shared details of a systematic cover-up in Sochi during Skype conversations with Vitaly Stepanov, a former Russian anti-doping official turned key whistleblower.
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) issued a statement in response to the results of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) retesting of doping samples from the 2012 London Olympics.
Spanish hurdler Josephine Onyia has been identified in Spain as being one of the athletes whose samples from Beijing was positive.
Athletics’ governing body, the IAAF, will decide on June 17 whether Russian Federation has done enough to be readmitted to competition in time for the Olympics.
All athletes found to have infringed the anti-doping rules will be banned from competing at Rio.
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“Retrospective analysis allows us to pursue those who cheat clean athletes, long after the competition has ended”.
