DOPING IN SPORT

Kazakh weightlifters stripped of 2012 London gold medals

The International Olympic Committee disqualified the trio for doping at the London Olympic Games.

Zulfiya Chinshanlo
YURI CORTEZ
Update:

Trio disqualified

The International Olympic Committee disqualified three Kazakh weightlifters, and stripped them of their gold medals for doping at the 2012 London Olympic Games.

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Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova were all caught in new testing of hundreds of samples from the London and 2008 Beijing Olympics.

A weightlifter from Belarus who won a bronze medal medal was also disqualified by the IOC. Russian weightlifter Besik Kudokov who won a silver in London also failed a doping test but the medal was not taken away because he died in 2013.

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