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BEIJING: Ukraine’s heptathlon silver medalist Lyudmila Blonska is
facing a life ban after the International Olympic Committee
confirmed on Friday that her B sample proved she had committed a
doping offense.
The 30-year-old, who has already served a two
year ban after testing positive for a steroid in 2003, failed the
dope test after methyl-testosterone, an anabolic steroid, showed up
on it.
The 2007 world heptathlon silver medalist and
2008 world indoor pentathlon champion, who underwent the test on
August 16, has been stripped of her medal and expelled from the
Games.
Her medal will now go to American Hyleas
Fountain while Tatiana Chernova of Russia gets the bronze. Another
Ukrainian, Nataliia Dobrinska, won the gold.
Blonska’s place in Friday evening’s long
jump final has been taken by Nigerian Blessing Okagbare, who
finished 13th in qualifying.
Blonska’s was the fifth drugs case of the
Beijing Games.
-- AFP
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