Ostapchuk tests positive, bronze for Gong
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August 14, 2012, Tuesday
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CHINA'S Gong Lijiao stands to win the bronze medal after Olympic women's shot put champion Nadzeya Ostapchuk was stripped of gold she won at the London Games a week ago after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid.
Two urine samples taken from the Belarussian before and after her win last Monday tested positive for metenolone, the International Olympic Committee said in a statement yesterday, a day after the Games ended.
"Ostapchuk...is disqualified from the women's shot put event, where she had placed first (and) is excluded from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012," the statement said.
Belarus has been ordered to return Ostapchuk's gold medal which would now be awarded to New Zealand's Valerie Adams, it added.
Russian Evgeniia Kolodko would move up to silver while Gong would get bronze.
Ostapchuk, who had won the gold with a throw of 21.36 meters, was world champion in 2005 and European champion two years ago. In July, at a meeting in Minsk, she threw 21.58, the best outdoor distance in the world since 1998.
Adams said she was delighted to be promoted to gold.
"I am speechless with this news. It is taking me some time to take this in," she said.
"It is also encouraging for those athletes like myself, who are proud to compete cleanly, that the system works and doping cheats are caught."
By the start of Sunday's final day of the Games, 11 other athletes had been excluded after testing positive for banned drugs.
They included US judoka Nick Delpopolo, who tested positive for marijuana which he blamed on unwittingly eating a hash brownie, as well as Russian cyclist Victoria Baranova and Colombian runner Diego Palomeque Echevarria, who both tested positive for testosterone.
Officials said urine and blood samples taken from competitors in London would be stored for up to eight years.
Two urine samples taken from the Belarussian before and after her win last Monday tested positive for metenolone, the International Olympic Committee said in a statement yesterday, a day after the Games ended.
"Ostapchuk...is disqualified from the women's shot put event, where she had placed first (and) is excluded from the Games of the XXX Olympiad in London in 2012," the statement said.
Belarus has been ordered to return Ostapchuk's gold medal which would now be awarded to New Zealand's Valerie Adams, it added.
Russian Evgeniia Kolodko would move up to silver while Gong would get bronze.
Ostapchuk, who had won the gold with a throw of 21.36 meters, was world champion in 2005 and European champion two years ago. In July, at a meeting in Minsk, she threw 21.58, the best outdoor distance in the world since 1998.
Adams said she was delighted to be promoted to gold.
"I am speechless with this news. It is taking me some time to take this in," she said.
"It is also encouraging for those athletes like myself, who are proud to compete cleanly, that the system works and doping cheats are caught."
By the start of Sunday's final day of the Games, 11 other athletes had been excluded after testing positive for banned drugs.
They included US judoka Nick Delpopolo, who tested positive for marijuana which he blamed on unwittingly eating a hash brownie, as well as Russian cyclist Victoria Baranova and Colombian runner Diego Palomeque Echevarria, who both tested positive for testosterone.
Officials said urine and blood samples taken from competitors in London would be stored for up to eight years.
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