Three Romanian weightlifters, including two medallists, were on Wednesday disqualified from the 2012 London Olympics after fresh analysis showed their urine samples to be tainted with banned substances, the IOC announced.
The weightlifters were named as Razvan Martin, a bronze medallist in the men’s 69kg category, Roxana Cocos, a silver medallist in the women’s 69kg category, and Gabriel Sincraian, who did not finish the men’s 85kg event, the IOC said.
Reanalysis of Martin’s samples resulted in a positive test for the prohibited substances dehydrochlormethyltestosterone, metenolone and stanozolol.
Cocos and Sincraian both tested positive for metenolone and stanozolol.
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