Two London Olympics athletes test positive for steroids
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Five years after Meline Daluzyan and Ineta Radevica participated in the 2012 London Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has found the duo to have tested positive for taking steroids. The IOC stores and re-tests samples from previous Games with new methods that didn’t exist at that time.
Armenian weightlifter Meline Daluzyan had competed in the women's 69kg event then while Latvia’s Ineta Radevica had competed in the long jump to finish fourth. Now, both the athletes have reportedly been found to have used anabolic steroids with Daluzyan using turinabol and Radevica, oxandrolone.
Both of them have retired and are facing doping bans after the retests of their seven-year-old sample now revealed the International Olympic Committee, reported Reuters.Â
The IOC has the protocol of storing and regularly re-testing samples from their past Games with methods which didn’t use to exist at the time, which had been put into place to detect substances that were not known at that time.Â
In one of their major steps forward towards protecting clean athletes and the integrity of the competition, all the samples since the 2004 Athens Olympic Games have been stored and reanalysed systematically from time to time.
Quite shockingly, more than 110 adverse findings have been found in Olympics since 2004 through the re-testing of samples, and the London Games contribute dozens from amongst them.
