LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Russia has been stripped of two track and field medals from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after retests showed their athletes doped with an anabolic steroid. The International Olympic Committee said Tuesday that four Russians have been disqualified from the Beijing Games in cases involving turinabol. Gnidenko has been disqualified from two track events at the 2012 London Olympics after her sample from four years earlier tested positive. The IOC has previously announced that it found 98 positive cases in retests of more than 1,000 samples from the Beijing and London Olympics. The latest tests can detect the use of steroids going back weeks and months, rather than days.

Source: National Post September 13, 2016 18:20 UTC