Artur Taymazov: London 2012 Olympian stripped of gold medal for doping offence

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The International Olympic Committee is reanalysing anti-doping samples and has caught out 24 medallists from the 2012 games.

A freestyle wrestler who won gold at the London 2012 Olympics has been stripped of his medal.

The wrestler was also disqualified after winning gold at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing when the International Olympic Committee discovered he had been using the oral steroid turinabol.

 

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