London:
On Wednesday, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said that 11 weightlifters,
including six medalists, produced positive samples in the second wave of doping
retests from the 2012 London Olympics.
Russia’s five-times European champion Nataliya
Zabolotnaya was among three silver medallists from the London Games to fail
tests along with compatriots Alexandr Ivanov and Svetlana Tzarukaeva. Zabolotnaya
finished second in the women’s 75kg event in London, repeating her silver-medal
performance in Athens eight years earlier. Ivanov was world champion in 2010
and 2013 in the 94kg category, while Tzarukaeva won the world title in 2011 in
the 63kg event.
Other London medalists to fail tests included Iryna
Kulesha of Belarus, Armenia’s Hripsime Khurshudyan and Moldova’s Cristina Iovu.
The IWF said the 11 athletes have all been
provisionally suspended.
All the athletes who tested positive were found to
have used the banned anabolic steroid Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on
Friday that 45 athletes had failed dope tests after their samples from the 2008
Beijing Olympics and London 2012 were reanalyzed.
The second wave of retests included 138 samples from
London 2012, involving athletes from two sports and nine countries. The London
2012 retests produced 15 failures.
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