Cuban stripped of Beijing Olympic silver

After failing a doping re-test, Cuban Yarelys Barrios has been stripped of the silver medal she won in discus at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Cuba's Yarelys Barrios has been stripped of the discus silver medal she won the Beijing Olympics after failing a doping re-test, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday.

The IOC also said Qatari sprinter Samuel Adelebari Francis had also failed a re-test and had been disqualified from the men's 100 metres in which he finished 16th.

Barrios and Francis were among 98 athletes to test positive in reanalysis of samples from the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2012 London Olympics.

The IOC ordered samples from the two Games to be re-tested, using new techniques not available at the time of the competitions in an attempt to root out cheating.

Six athletes, including three Russian medallists, were disqualified on Wednesday from their events in Beijing.

Barrios tested positive for the prohibited substance acetazolamide - a diuretic and masking agent, the IOC said.

It said the 33-year-old "has the silver medal, the diploma and the medallist pin obtained in the discus throw event withdrawn and is ordered to return these".

It also added the governing body of athletics, the IAAF, would modify the results of the event and "to consider any further action within its own competence".

Francis tested positive for the banned substance stanozolol, the IOC said. He was also entered for the 200 metres but did not start.


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