Russian sprinter – and her teammates – lose Beijing Olympics relay gold after dope retest turns up steroids

Russia was stripped of a relay gold medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Tuesday after one of their female runners tested positive for steroids in a reanalysis of her doping samples.

Sprinter Yulia Chermoshanskaya tested positive for two drugs – stanozolol and turinabol – and has been retroactively disqualified and stripped of the gold in the women’s 4x100-metre relay, along with her teammates, the International Olympic Committee said.

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Chermoshanskaya was also disqualified from the 200 metres, in which she finished eighth.

Belgium stands to be upgraded to the relay gold, with Nigeria moving up to silver and Brazil to bronze.

The IOC asked the IAAF to modify the results and consider any further sanctions against Chermoshanskaya, who is no longer competing.

The three other Russians runners in the relay final were Yulia Gushchina, Alexandra Fedoriva and Evgeniya Polyakova. Under IAAF rules, an entire relay team lose their medals if one of the runners tests positive.