Russia stripped of 2008 Olympic 4x400m silver after positive doping retest

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Russia’s silver medal-winning 4x400m team from the Beijing Olympics have been stripped of their medals after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed that Anastasia Kapachinskaya had failed a drugs test on reanalysis.

Kapachinskaya, the 2003 world 200m champion, tested positive for stanozolol and turinabol after the IOC conducted retests on stored samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

The Russian, now 36, has already served a doping suspension after testing positive for stanozolol in 2004 after winning the World Indoor …

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