MONACO (AP) — Russian runner Natalya Antyukh was disqualified on Monday from her 400-meter hurdles win at the 2012 London Olympics for doping, and Lashinda Demus of the United States is set to be upgraded to the gold medal.
Great job! Only took eight years to catch the bearded woman and another two to disclose the information.
I still think they should invite these new Gold medalists to the next olympics and have them stand on the top step, play the anthem, right after the current winners ceremony.
Great job! Only took eight years to catch the bearded woman and another two to disclose the information.
I still think they should invite these new Gold medalists to the next olympics and have them stand on the top step, play the anthem, right after the current winners ceremony.
They could be presenting the same gold medal for the next 20 years in some events if they started doing that by the time they go down the list
That was an interesting race to the finish . Natalya was obviously stronger , however the second place finish was very close. The close up pic from the medal ceremony tells another story.
📲 Subscribe to @olympics: http://oly.ch/Subscribe The Russian Federation's Natalya Antyukh wins the gold medal in the women's 400m hurdles event in the Oly...
I'd rather WADA, AIU, NSO, National anti-doping agency eventually get them than never. There is an eight-year statute of limitations on Olympic samples, that is why you saw so many London positives just before the summer of 2020 when Tokyo was supposed to go.
This is good because as testing gets better, time is on side of the tester's side.
Although taking one look at that athlete I would suspect her right away, only you need evidence. We now know that almost all Russian athletes dope and now that Kenya is labelled Cat-A watch list, they are getting caught. Mission accomplished. Or in the process. When testers get a chance to get into Ethiopia, it's going to be ugly.
Unless the conspiracy theory-sound idea is true that the golden-boy and girl athletes are immune because you don't want to crush the dreams of the remaining fans.
Bolt and Kipchoge are clean. Everyone slower than them is dirty (so it turns out).
Sad, that the IOC would try to restrict fans from viewing the race and deny Demus a little well-deserved spotlight by restricting the video above (works for me, though).
At the same time, it's cool to think that Sydney McLaughlin would have beaten her by 2.02 seconds.
Great job! Only took eight years to catch the bearded woman and another two to disclose the information.
I still think they should invite these new Gold medalists to the next olympics and have them stand on the top step, play the anthem, right after the current winners ceremony.
It'd be nice for the athletes but too embarassing for the sport.
yes, i agree, i would rather they do this than never, but i'm just feeling for the upgraded medalists, especially 4th place going to 3rd. Mooving from bronze to silver: at least you were on the podium at one time, but a 4th place moving to 3rd? That missing podium experience is huge. Trying to imagine that going on a DECADE later, after the athlete has long since moved on to retirement possibly, or on to another, completely different, stage of life: work, deferred career, kids and marriage. Wow.
I'd rather WADA, AIU, NSO, National anti-doping agency eventually get them than never. There is an eight-year statute of limitations on Olympic samples, that is why you saw so many London positives just before the summer of 2020 when Tokyo was supposed to go.
This is good because as testing gets better, time is on side of the tester's side.
Although taking one look at that athlete I would suspect her right away, only you need evidence. We now know that almost all Russian athletes dope and now that Kenya is labelled Cat-A watch list, they are getting caught. Mission accomplished. Or in the process. When testers get a chance to get into Ethiopia, it's going to be ugly.
Unless the conspiracy theory-sound idea is true that the golden-boy and girl athletes are immune because you don't want to crush the dreams of the remaining fans.
Bolt and Kipchoge are clean. Everyone slower than them is dirty (so it turns out).
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