LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Eight years later, more athletes continue to be stripped of medals from the Beijing Olympics because of positive doping tests. Four athletes, including three Russians, had their medals taken away on Wednesday after their doping samples from 2008 were retested and came back positive for banned drugs. RelatedRussia had already been stripped of the relay medal earlier this month when another runner, Anastasia Kapachinskaya, tested positive. Also Wednesday, Russian weightlifter Marina Shainova was stripped of her silver medal in the 58-kilogram class. The bronze medal in the men’s 69kg weightlifting class was stripped from Armenia’s Tigram Martirosyan, who tested positive for stanozolol and turinabol.

Source: National Post August 31, 2016 15:45 UTC