Gold medal-winning wrestler is 60th athlete disqualified from London 2012

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Uzbek freestyle wrestler Artur Taymazov has been stripped of his London 2012 Olympic gold medal after re-analysis of stored samples

Taymazov, whose 2008 gold was taken away in 2017 after a re-testing of samples from the Beijing Games, is the 60th athlete to be disqualified from the London Olympics after the event.The IOC said Taymazov, who won men’s freestyle 120kg gold at three successive Games, had been disqualified from the results after a positive test for the prohibited substance Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone .

 

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I might enter the 100m in the next Olympics. Not even gonna run tho, and probably end up getting gold ten years later cause I’m the only one not on the gas

7 years later...shambles

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