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Russian doper stripped of Olympic gold medal - CtrlF.XYZ

Russian doper stripped of Olympic gold medal

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Russian runner Natalya Antyukh has been disqualified from her 400-metre hurdles triumph astatine the 2012 London Olympics for doping, with Lashinda Demus of the United States is acceptable to beryllium upgraded to the golden medal.

Antyukh was already serving a four-year prohibition successful a erstwhile lawsuit judged by the Court oregon Arbitration for Sport past twelvemonth that stripped her results from 2013 to 2015.

The caller ruling based connected humanities grounds recovered from a Moscow investigating laboratory database further disqualified Antyukh successful each of her events from July 15, 2012 done June 29, 2013, way and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said.

At the 2012 Olympics, connected August 8, Demus finished 0.07 seconds down the Russian winner.

Now aged 39, Demus is successful enactment to go an Olympic champion for the archetypal clip and get a golden medal from the International Olympic Committee to adhd to her satellite rubric won successful 2011.

The bronze medallist 10 years ago, Zuzana Hejnová of the Czech Republic should beryllium upgraded to silver, and the bronze is acceptable to spell to Kaliese Spencer of Jamaica.

The AIU did not specify grounds against Antyukh from the Moscow database that was portion of a years-long standoff betwixt the World Anti-Doping Agency and Russian authorities.

The latest lawsuit was prosecuted astatine nationalist level successful Russia and tin beryllium appealed, the Monaco-based AIU said.

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