LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) " Three female weightlifters from Kazakhstan have been stripped of gold medals from the 2012 London Olympics after failing retests of their doping samples. Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova have been stripped of the gold medals they won in the 53-kilogram, 63kg and 75kg divisions, respectively. The IOC disciplinary commission said Besik Kudukhov's result will stand because it cannot rule on doping cases involving the dead. The IOC stores doping samples for 10 years so they can be reanalyzed when improved testing methods become available. Ilya Ilyin has failed retests from both the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, though the IOC has not yet finished processing those cases.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 27, 2016 09:56 UTC