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Olympic high jump champion Anna Chicherova among positive Beijing tests, Russian media reports
- Updated: May 24, 2016
Russia’s reigning Olympic high jump champion Anna Chicherova is reportedly among 14 Russian athletes said to have tested positive after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced 31 people from Beijing 2008 had failed retrospective tests.
The Russian news agency TASS reported that 14 of the 31 athletes who have tested positive are believed to be Russian – the majority coming from its athletics team – after the IOC reanalysed 454 samples from Beijing
Chicherova picked up the bronze medal in Beijing behind Belgium’s Tia Hellebaut in first and Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic in second, and the Russian’s coach, Yevgeny Zagorulko, said that the 33-year-old high jumper had …
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