IOC strips 4 track winners of 2004 Athens medals
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December 7, 2012, Friday
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EIGHT years after winning Olympic medals in Athens, four track and field athletes from eastern Europe were ordered to hand them back ON Wednesday because of positive doping tests.
Lance Armstrong, meanwhile, can hold onto his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Games for a little while longer. The International Olympic Committee executive board disqualified four athletes whose Athens doping samples were retested earlier this year and came back positive for steroids, including shot put gold medalist Yuriy Bilonog of Ukraine.
Also stripped were hammer throw silver medalist Ivan Tskikhan of Belarus and two bronze medalists, women's shot putter Svetlana Krivelyova of Russia and discus thrower Irina Yatchenko of Belarus. The case of a fifth bronze medalist, weightlifter Oleg Perepechenov of Russia, remains pending.
"Athletes who cheat by doping must understand that just because they get away with it one day, there is a very good chance that they will be caught in the future," WADA President John Fahey said.
Lance Armstrong, meanwhile, can hold onto his bronze medal from the 2000 Sydney Games for a little while longer. The International Olympic Committee executive board disqualified four athletes whose Athens doping samples were retested earlier this year and came back positive for steroids, including shot put gold medalist Yuriy Bilonog of Ukraine.
Also stripped were hammer throw silver medalist Ivan Tskikhan of Belarus and two bronze medalists, women's shot putter Svetlana Krivelyova of Russia and discus thrower Irina Yatchenko of Belarus. The case of a fifth bronze medalist, weightlifter Oleg Perepechenov of Russia, remains pending.
"Athletes who cheat by doping must understand that just because they get away with it one day, there is a very good chance that they will be caught in the future," WADA President John Fahey said.
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