PARIS - Six medallists from the 2008 Beijing Olympics were among nine competitors to fail drug tests as part of an International Olympic Committee campaign of retesting stored samples, it was announced Wednesday. All six tested positive for the steroid turinabol, said the IOC. Three non-medallists also tested positive -- Azerbaijan weightlifter Sardar Hasanov, Cuban long jumper Wilfredo Martinez and Josephine Onyia, a 100m hurdler from Spain. The IOC has been reanalysing stored samples from athletes of the Beijing and 2012 London Games as part of efforts to clean up athletics. The latest batch takes the total of positive tests to 60 from 1,243 reanalysed samples.

Source: Bangkok Post October 26, 2016 18:56 UTC