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Two Romanian weightlifters have been stripped of their Olympic medals whereas a 3rd faces life ban.© AFP
Two Romanian weightlifters have been stripped of their 2012 London Olympics medals on Wednesday after constructive checks for steroids, bringing its document complete of doping circumstances at any Summer or Winter Games to 77. The International Olympic Committee stated silver medalist Roxana Cocos and bronze medalist Razvan Martin examined constructive for a number of steroids in reanalysis of their samples. A 3rd Romanian, Gabriel Sincraian, additionally examined constructive for steroids in his London pattern. He now faces a life ban from the International Weightlifting Federation for a 3rd doping sanction.
All 4 members of Romania’s weightlifting workforce on the 2012 Olympics have now been disqualified by the IOC for doping.
The newest sanctions carry the whole of London doping circumstances to 77, 5 greater than on the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in accordance with IOC statistics.
Of these 77 circumstances, 68 have been revealed in a reanalysis program that relied on an improved check for anabolic steroids, which detected infractions by an athlete for an extended interval after use.
The IOC may wait till August 2020, eight years after the London Olympics closed, to course of disciplinary circumstances.
Martin took bronze within the males’s 69-kilogram class at London whereas utilizing Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Metenolone and Stanozolol, the IOC stated.
The 28-year-old athlete faces an extended ban by the IWF as a result of he beforehand served a two-year ban for steroid doping.
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With Martin’s disqualification, North Korean lifter Kim Myong-hyok may very well be upgraded from fourth to get the bronze medal.
Cocos completed second within the ladies’s 69kg class. Anna Nurmukhambetova of Kazakhtan and Ubaldina Valoyes of Colombia are subsequent in line to be upgraded within the medals.
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