DOPING
Lifters lose London medals
International Olympic Committee strips three Kazakh weightlifters of gold medals they won at the London 2012 Games
Lausanne — The International Olympic Committee has stripped three Kazakh weightlifters of gold medals they won at the London 2012 Games. Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova were caught in new dope testing of hundreds of samples from the London and 2008 Beijing Olympics. 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, Maneza, and Podobedova, all tested positive for the steroid stanozol, which promotes muscle growth. AFP
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