IOC's retesting preogramme catches three more medallists from 2008 and 2012

This brings the total number of athletes caught in retests from 2008 and 2012 to 109

IOC's retesting preogramme catches three more medallists from 2008 and 2012

Uzbekistan's most decorated Olympian Artur Taymazov is among three medallists at the 2008 and 2012 Games who have been caught doping by the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) reanalysis programme.

Taymazov, who is now a member of the Russian parliament for Vladimir Putin's United Russia party, is now stripped of the gold medal he won in the 120kg category of the men's freestyle wrestling at Beijing 2008.

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