Usain Bolt, in his first 200-meter race of the season, won in 19.89 seconds, showing he hasn’t been slowed by a hamstring injury which forced him to withdraw from Jamaica’s Olympic trials; the six-time gold medalist was still granted a spot on the team in Rio.
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A total of 98 failed tests have now been detected from the stored samples.
The London Games are fast becoming the dirtiest known Games in history as it emerged on Friday that 15 more athletes from just two Olympic sports and nine different nations had been caught doping under another wave of re-tests.
The 30 new positive cases from Beijing involved athletes from four sports and eight countries.
Ozkan, 28, came second in the 48kg category in Beijing, but she was caught after the International Olympic Committee ordered a retest of samples from both the 2008 Games and 2012 Olympics in London, reports Xinhua.
Of the 45 athletes who failed in the latest wave, 30 competed in Beijing, 23 of whom were medalists.
More sensational said the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
The news comes as the International Olympic Committee ponder issuing a blanket ban to Russian Federation for Rio 2016, which would prevent any of their athletes from competing at the Olympics next month.
The IOC promises a third and fourth wave of testing utilizing technology not available at the games in 2012 and 2008. All athletes found to have infringed anti-doping rules will be banned from competing at the Rio Olympics.
The IOC said in a statement she had tested positive for the banned substance stanozolol, an anabolic steroid.
“Thank you everyone for the funeral of athletics”, she said.
The IAAF suspension previous year came after an independent World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report which uncovered a culture of state-sponsored doping.
No athletes have been identified by name as their cases proceed through the anti-doping adjudication process.
Russian Federation is a sporting powerhouse whose absence from Rio would create the biggest crisis in decades for the Olympic movement and President Vladimir Putin launched a final push to avert a ban.
“Sports must always be clean, and the health of athletes must be safeguarded”, he said.
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The World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) released a report last week, suggesting that the Russian government sponsored doping in its athletes and helped to cover up the use of banned substances.
