IOC Disqualifies 10 Athelets after Doping Retest , The International Olympic Committee has disqualified 10 athletes of medals achieved from the 2008 Olympics after banned substances were found during retests of samples from the games. Although no Gold medalists were among the 10 but there were 3 silver medalists from weightlifting and wrestling whose report were positive. 2 Bronze
medalist atheletes from Track and field event comprising of Greek triple jumper Chrysopigi Devetzi and Ukrainian pole vaulter Denys Yurchenko.
iv. Six more athletes who did not win medals in 2008 were also disqualified, including Russia’s Elena Slesarenko, who was the women’s high jump gold medalist in 2004 but placed fourth in 2008.
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