Russia has been stripped of an eighth women’s track and field medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after heptathlete Tatyana Chernova lost her bronze Monday.
A retest of one of Chernova’s doping samples from 2008 came up positive for the banned anabolic steroid turinabol, a common find among the recent string of Russian positive retests.
Chernova was previously stripped of her other two global championship medals -- 2011 World gold and 2012 Olympic bronze -- after retesting of stored samples.
She was originally fourth in the 2008 Olympic heptathlon but was upgraded to bronze in 2008 when original silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine was stripped for failing a drug test.
Great Britain’s Kelly Sotherton, the original fifth-place finisher in Beijing, is in line to be upgraded to bronze.
Russia originally won 11 women’s track and field medals in Beijing.
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Chernova banned! IAAF need to test Beijing 2008. @J_Ennis should be world 2011 champion too. Doping is horrible when you are effected by it
— Kelly (@KellySotherton) January 30, 2015
