First Russia now Beijing! With newest technology, more than 20 athletes from Beijing, among 45 which banned substances is found in their sample.
The 45 athletes’ samples are dated back to 2008 and 2012 Summer Games, and the number is now risen to 98. However IOC refuse to highlight the names of 45 athletes as now the result only shows “Adverse Analytical Finding”.
IOC stated that:
- 30 of them competed in Beijing and 15 competed in London;
- Of the Beijing group, four sports and eight different National Olympic Committees are involved;
- The 15 athletes with adverse findings from London 2012 came from two sports and nine nations.
“All athletes found to have infringed the anti-doping rules will be banned from competing at the Olympic Games Rio 2016,” the group adds, hinting that there could be more drama before the upcoming Summer Games begin in Rio two weeks from now.
The IOC says the new doping results came from using “the very latest scientific analysis methods” to reanalyze stored samples from the Summer Games in Beijing and London — and that the work was guided by “an intelligence-gathering process that started in August 2015 and included the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and International Federations.”
Here’s a tally of the overall results from doping tests for the past two Summer Olympics, combining the first and second waves of testing:
- Beijing: 840 selected samples / 60 AAFs / 20 NOCs / 10 sports
- London: 403 selected samples / 38 AAFs / 15 NOCs / 7 sports