Russia was stripped of a relay gold medal from the 2008
Beijing Olympics on Tuesday night, after one of its female
runners tested positive for steroids in a reanalysis of her
doping samples.

Sprinter Yulia Chermoshanskaya tested positive for two
drugs — stanozolol and turinabol — and has been
retroactively disqualified and, along with her teammates,
stripped of the gold medal in the women’s 4×100-meter
relay, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said.

Chermoshanskaya was also disqualified from the 200
meters, in which she finished eighth.

Belgium stands to be upgraded to the relay gold, with
Nigeria moving up to silver and Brazil to bronze.

The IOC asked the IAAF to modify the results and consider
any further sanctions against Chermoshanskaya, who is no
longer competing.

The three other Russians runners in the relay final were
Yulia Gushchina, Alexandra Fedoriva and Evgeniya
Polyakova. Under IAAF rules, an entire relay team loses its
medals if one of the runners tests positive.

The Belgian runners in line to get gold are Olivia Borlee,
Hanna Marien, Elodie Ouedraogo and Kim Gevaert.

The United States did not make the relay final after dropping
the baton in the heats. The Jamaican and British teams
dropped the baton in the final.

The IOC said Chermoshanskaya claimed in a written
statement that she had been injured ahead of the Beijing
Games and had been receiving injections on medical advice.
The IOC said she should have declared those medications at
the time.

Turinabol and stanozolol are traditional steroids that go
back decades. Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson tested
positive for stanozolol at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, and he
was stripped of the gold medal in the 100 meters.

Tuesday’s decision was another black eye for Russia. The
country’s track and field team was banned from the Rio de
Janeiro Olympics over allegations of state-sponsored
doping. Investigations are continuing into wider systematic
doping in Russia involving dozens of other summer and
winter Olympic sports.

Using enhanced techniques, the IOC has retested more than
1,000 doping samples from the 2008 Beijing Games and
2012 London Olympics to catch those who evaded detection
at the time. A total of 98 athletes have been caught.

The IOC stores doping samples for 10 years to allow them to
be reanalyzed when improved tests become available, which
means cheats can be caught years later. For the Beijing and
London retests, the IOC used a method that can detect use
of steroids going back weeks and months, rather than days.

Chermoshanskaya is the seventh athlete so far who has
been formally disqualified by the IOC as a result of the
Beijing and London retesting program. Ukrainian javelin
thrower Oleksandr Pyatnytsya was stripped of her silver
medal from London after she tested positive for turinabol.

Source:www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2016/08/17/dope-nigeria-profits-as-russia-loses-beijing-relay-gold/

Cheating is bad, whether in sport or in examinations of life. It brings shame and distrust forever.

Don't we need to shun it?

Silver still try sha

I just pray the U-23 wins the football trophy, that's the crowning title of all.

I see them winning it.

BTW how many golds do Nigeria have ?

locosis007:
Silver still try sha

I just pray the U-23 wins the football trophy, that's the crowning title of all.

I see them winning it.

BTW how many golds do Nigeria have ?

We have no medal, the post addresses 2008 Olympics.