Thursday, 8 November 2012

Bronze medal stripped

Bronze medal stripped, Bronze medal stripped [PHOTO/VIDEO] from Soslan Tigiev. Nearly three months after the closing ceremony, another Olympic athlete has been stripped of a medal for a doping violation at the London Games.
The International Olympic Committee has disqualified Soslan Tigiev, a freestyle wrestler from Uzbekistan who won bronze in the 74-kilogram class after a positive drug test, Olympics officials said Wednesday.The International Olympic Committee, in a release, said Tigiev was tested after his match Aug. 10 and the sample came up positive for methylhexaneamine, a prohibited substance.

Tigiev won the bronze medal in the 74kg class in London. The third-place finish was changed to Hungarian wrestler Gabor Hatos, who will be given the bronze medal.

Tigiev won the silver medal at the 2008 Olympics.

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