Sitting at home last week, Ms. Lowe received a curious Facebook message from a German athlete against whom she competed in 2008: “Congratulations, bronze medalist,” it read. “I kept doing the math,” Ms. Lowe, who originally finished sixth, said. The couple’s house in Georgia was foreclosed on that year, something Ms. Lowe said would not have happened had she distinguished herself in Beijing. “I was really young and promising at that point, and sponsors were interested in me,” Ms. Lowe, now 32, said. It is standard practice for Olympic officials to store urine samples for up to a decade so they may conduct additional tests if they obtain new information.

Source: New York Times November 21, 2016 18:18 UTC