Ten or so years ago the Evening Standard ran the billboard headline “London Fashion Week Cocaine Shock”. Presumably the twist was that there was someone alive surprised to find it was going on, since the revelation seemed just about as startling as the fact they were playing baccarat in Rick’s place. Over Christmas, the International Weightlifting Federation dropped another bombshell when it announced that five Olympics weightlifters have just been provisionally suspended because some “adverse analytical findings” were discovered when the International Olympic Committee recently retested samples provided in 2012.
There were 260 weightlifters at London 2012. So far, 24 have failed tests.
Written by Andy Bull
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/jan/08/london-2012-olympics-failed-doping-tests under the title “London 2012’s clean Games boast in ruins as failed doping tests pile up | Andy Bull”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
