The IOC has stripped Olympic gold medals from three Chinese women weightlifters for doping at their home 2008 Beijing Games.
The IOC says it also took a bronze medal in women’s shot put from Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus. Ostapchuk previously lost her gold medal and Olympic title from the 2012 London Games in a separate doping case.
The four medalists were among eight new doping disqualifications announced on Thursday in an extensive program of re-testing samples stored since the Beijing and London Olympics.
The IOC says all three Chinese weightlifters tested positive for the banned growth hormone GHRP—2.
They were- Cao Lei in the 75-kilogram class; Chen Xiexia at 48kg; and Liu Chunhonog at 69kg.
Liu also tested positive for sibutramine, the IOC says.
