All sports Doping: The IOC take back the medals from four athletes of the Olympic Games 2004

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided last Wednesday to take back the medals from four athletes who won a prize during the Olympic Games at Athens in 2004 after the various analysis of their doping test which proved that they were positive for steroids at that time.

The Ukrainian Juri Belonog loses his denomination; Ivan Tikhon lost his silver medal while his fellow Irina Yatchenko and the Russian Svetlana Krivelyova are without any their bronze medals. The name of the fifth athlete also positive to the test will be added later on by the IOC because of a delay in the procedure.

Since Athens’ Games, all the vials of the doping test of the Olympic Games are kept in a big freezer, in the basement of the doping laboratory of Lausanne. The IOC asked the Swiss laboratory to examine one more time the 105 tests of Athens with the new methods of detection before they lost their credibility.

The Athens’ Games already hold the record of doping related with more than twenty cases in 15 years time without mentioning the case of the American runner Tyler Hamilton who gave back his Gold Medal of “Contre-la-montre” in 2011 after having confess and the American athlete of 4×400 m, a situation that made the USA loose her denomination six years later.

With the closing ceremony of the games, was successful; the athletes are still under threat during eight years, as stipulated by the global code of doping.


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