Weightlifting: Three London gold medal winners disqualified for dopingLausanne, Switzerland- The International Olympic Committee on Thursday stripped three Kazakh weightlifters of gold medals won at the London 2012 Games for doping. A weightlifter from Belarus who won a bronze medal was also disqualified by the IOC. Russian weightlifter Besik Kudokov who won a silver in London also failed a doping test but the medal was not taken away because he died in 2013. Chinshanlo won the 53kg category in London, Maneza won the 63kg gold and Podobedova the 75kg contest. Three Chinese weightlifting gold medal winners from Beijing have been stripped of their titles because of doping.

Source: The China Post October 27, 2016 20:02 UTC