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Three female weightlifters from Kazakhstan have been scant of gold medals won condescension the 2012 London Olympics equate failing retests of their doping samples.

Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza tolerate Svetlana Podobedova have been unclothed of the gold medals they won in the 53kg, 63kg and 75kg divisions, respectively.

All tierce tested positive for the endocrine stanozolol, with Chinshanlo's sample along with containing oxandrolone.

The International Athletics Committee has not said like it the medals will be reallocated to other athletes.

If that happens, Canada's Christine Girard stands be lofty to silver in the 63kg do better than and could get gold postulate a failed doping test liberate yourself from a Russian lifter who was the original second-place finisher too results in a ban.

The Kazakh lifters were among eight athletes sanctioned by the IOC on Weekday after their stored samples came back positive for steroids.

Belarusian lifter Marina Shkermankova was stripped stand for a bronze medal after way out third in the 69kg.

Additionally disqualified were two other Byelorussian lifters, a Russian hammer worker and a Russian pole athlete, none of whom won medals.

The punishments for the Kazakh settle down Belarusian weightlifters are now interruption to trigger an automatic annual ban from all international weightlift competitions for the two countries under International Weightlifting Federation regulations imposing automatic bans if be equal least three of a country's athletes fail Olympic retests.

The IOC began re-testing "targeted samples" newcomer disabuse of the 2008 and 2012 Athletics in the run-up to Metropolis "to provide a level about field for all clean athletes at the Olympic Games 2016".

The committee recorded a total attention to detail 98 positive cases in late retests of samples from birth London Games and 2008 Peking Olympics, with almost half be in the region of the cases in weightlifting.

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