Russian athletes likely to have tested positive for doping at Beijing Olympics: agency

  20 May 2016    Read: 1123
Russian athletes likely to have tested positive for doping at Beijing Olympics: agency
Some Russian athletes are likely to have tested positive for doping in the 2008 Olympic Games after their samples were re-examined, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko as saying on Friday.
Thirty one athletes from six sports could be banned from this year`s Rio Olympics after failing doping tests when 454 samples from the 2008 Beijing Games were re-examined, the International Olympic Committee said on Tuesday.

"Now they will publish (a report for) 2008. I guess that our sportspeople will be there as well. We are talking about 12 countries here," the agency quoted Mutko as saying.

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