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muriel_volestrangler

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Tue Nov 19, 2024, 11:13 AM Nov 19

US's Shannon Rowbury awarded Olympic bronze medal for 1500m. For London 2012. 5 out of 1st 9 finishers now banned.

The London 2012 race regarded as one of the dirtiest in history has expunged yet another name from the record books after Tatyana Tomashova was stripped of her women’s Olympic 1500m silver medal. The Russian becomes the fifth out of 12 finishers in the final to be disqualified for retrospective doping offences.
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Tomashova is the latest athlete to be punished after analysis of her data held in the Moscow anti-doping laboratory showed she had been taking banned drugs. The Russian had finished fourth but was moved up after the first two in the race, Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin and Gamze Bulut, were banned for blood doping and had their results annulled in 2015 and 2017 respectively. Belarus’s Natallia Kareiva, who came seventh, and Russia’s Yekaterina Kostetskaya, who was ninth, were also banned for doping offences.
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“Tomashova’s sanction stemmed from AIU charges based on historical data, showing evidence of doping in Russian athletics, from the Laboratory Information Management System at the former Moscow Laboratory,” CAS said. “The International Olympic Committee may now proceed with the reallocation of medals and the update of the IOC database.”

The Ethiopian-born Swedish athlete Abeba Aregawi, who was fifth in London, moves up to silver while the American Shannon Rowbury takes a belated bronze medal. Dobriskey and her fellow Briton Laura Weightman have been moved up to fifth and sixth respectively.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/nov/19/fifth-athlete-stripped-olympic-medal-dirtiest-races-athletics-history-tatyana-tomashova-london-2012-1500m
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US's Shannon Rowbury awarded Olympic bronze medal for 1500m. For London 2012. 5 out of 1st 9 finishers now banned. (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Nov 19 OP
She called it underpants Nov 19 #1

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1. She called it
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 11:23 AM
Nov 19

The race was questioned almost immediately with Britain’s Lisa Dobriskey telling the BBC straight after the race: “I’ll probably get into trouble for saying this, but I don’t believe I’m competing on a level playing field.” History, though, has slowly proven Dobriskey correct.

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