Twelve years after the ladies’s 1,500m ultimate on the London 2012 Olympics, the final remaining Russian observe medallist from these Video games has been suspended. On Tuesday, the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) handed down a 10-year ban to retired Russian distance runner Tatyana Tomashova, a two-time world champion, after her samples from the London 2012 Olympics examined optimistic for anabolic steroids.
Tomashova completed fourth within the 1,500m ultimate in London, a race that has since develop into notorious as one of the crucial tainted occasions in Olympic historical past. The gold and silver medallists from that race, Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin and Gamze Bulut, had been disqualified years in the past for doping violations. With Tomashova’s ban, 5 of the 13 finalists in that race have now been disqualified because of doping.
On account of Tomashova’s disqualification, U.S. middle-distance runner Shannon Rowbury, who initially positioned sixth, shall be awarded bronze.
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The CAS revealed that Tomashova’s optimistic outcomes stemmed from re-tests carried out in 2021 on samples she offered in June and July 2012, simply weeks earlier than the London Olympics. Along with her ban, all of Tomashova’s aggressive outcomes from June 21, 2012, to January 2015—together with these from the London Video games—have been disqualified.
Russian runner Tatyana Tomashova has lastly been stripped of her 2012 medal within the 1,500m on the Olympics. She’s the fifth from the highest 10 finishers to have been discovered responsible of doping and had their outcome disqualified. American Shannon Rowbury initially sixth, will now get bronze pic.twitter.com/fEcdbWHtex
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That is Tomashova’s second profession doping offense. She was beforehand banned for 2 years in 2008 after being charged with the manipulation of drug samples and tampering with the doping management course of. She was 37 within the 2012 Olympic ultimate, and retired after the 2015 World Championships in Beijing.
Russia’s observe and discipline group initially gained 18 medals in athletics on the London 2012 Olympics, together with eight golds, 4 silvers and 6 bronze. As a result of intensive doping violations and subsequent disqualifications, all however 4 of the medals have been stripped (three in discipline occasions, and one within the marathon). The widespread doping by Russian athletes on the 2012 Olympics has been described as a “sabotage” of the Video games.
