The IOC
said the 23 positive re-tests were on athletes from six countries competing in
five sports. This comes a week after it announced that 31 new cases had been
found in the Beijing Olympics.
Deutsche Welle, 27 May 2016
A statement
issued by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday said that the
positive results had come from re-tests, which were carried out on 265 selected
doping samples based on intelligence-gathering that began in August of last
year.
The IOC
said all athletes found to have doped would be banned from competing at the
summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August.
"These
reanalyses show, once again, our determination in the fight against doping. We
want to keep the dopers away from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro,"
IOC President Thomas Bach said.
"I
have already appointed a disciplinary commission which has the full power to
take all the decisions on behalf of the IOC."
Reanalysis reveals banned substances in 23 “A” samples from London 2012 https://t.co/zpnpxJbgx5 pic.twitter.com/GH9c7lByTo— IOC MEDIA (@iocmedia) May 27, 2016
Last week
the IOC announced that 31 athletes from six sports could be banned from the Rio
de Janeiro Games in August after failing doping tests when 454 samples were
re-examined from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
The IOC
stores samples taken from athletes for a period of 10 years in order to allow
for re-testing with newer methods or to look for new drugs. It has said that it
will not identify the athletes or their sports until the 'b' tests on the
samples have been completed - a process that can take several weeks.
pfd/kms (Reuters, dpa, AFP)
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