Aksana Miankova to be stripped of Beijing 2008 hammer gold

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Aksana Miankova is among five Belarusian track and field athletes to have been sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee for failing anti-doping tests on samples taken at the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic Games.

Thrower Miankova is to be stripped of her Olympic hammer gold medal won in Beijing eight years ago, while she will also be disqualified from London 2012, where she placed seventh, after reanalysis of both her samples tested positive for prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone (turinabol) and …

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