Rio de Janeiro: Russia was ordered on Tuesday to return its gold medals from the 2008 Beijing Olympics 4x100m women’s relay after Yulia Chermoshanskaya tested positive for a banned substance in a re-analysis of her sample.
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The re-analysis of Chermoshanskaya’s samples saw her test positive for anabolic steroids stanozolol and dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.
Chermoshanskaya also had her eighth-place finish in the women’s 200m annulled because of her newly revealed doping offence.
The Russian 4x100m team of Evgeniya Polyakova, Aleksandra Fedoriva, Yulia Gushchina and Chermoshanskaya had won the final ahead of Belgium, Nigeria and Brazil.
United States failed to qualify for the final.
Turinabol and stanozolol are both traditional steroids that go back decades.
The IOC has requested that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) modifies the results accordingly and also considers any further action.
The IOC stores doping samples for 10 years to allow them to be reanalyzed when improved tests become available, meaning cheats can be caught years later.
Russian Federation has been in the spotlight at the ongoing Rio Olympics after revelations of a state-sponsored doping regime saw its team slashed by almost a third.
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The IOC has conducted many retests in recent months and said that 98 athletes had positive results from Beijing and London 2012. Ukrainian javelin thrower Oleksandr Pyatnytsya was stripped of her silver medal from London after testing positive for turinabol.
