*Ten medallists from Beijing 2008 Olympics disqualified after samples retested

Ten medallists are among 16 athletes disqualified by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday for doping at the Beijing Games in 2008.
The 10 medallists who competed in weightlifting, wrestling and athletics were all found to have taken banned substances after retesting of samples.
They included three silver medal winners – Russian Khasan Baroev and Azeri Vitaliy Rahimov in Greco-Roman wrestling and Kazah weightlifter Irina Nekrassova.

*IOC president Thomas Bach defends Russia’s inclusion at Rio Games

International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach has defended his organisation’s decision not to throw Russia out of the Rio Olympic Games for doping.
The Olympic superpower’s presence in Rio was thrown into doubt three weeks before the start of the Games when Canadian law professor Richard McLaren published his interim report into state-sponsored doping in Russia, which was commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
Despite calls for Russia to be suspended from international competition, Bach and his executive board left the decision on the eligibility of individual Russian athletes up to their respective international federations, with the country eventually finishing fourth in the medal table.

* WADA claims nearly 50 per cent of drug tests at Rio Olympics were aborted

Almost half of doping tests during the Rio Olympics were aborted on some days during the tournament because athletes could not be found, a report from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) claims.
A WADA report into the anti-doping operation employed at the Rio 2016 Games has criticised “serious failings”.
The 55-page WADA Independent Observers report accused the management team in the Rio 2016 anti-doping department of “a lack of coordination”, which it said contributed to putting an almost unmanageable strain on drug testing at competition venues and the Athletes Village.

*Three Kazakh female weightlifters stripped of 2012 Olympic golds

Three female weightlifters from Kazakhstan have been stripped of gold medals won at the 2012 London Olympics after failing retests of their doping samples.
Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova have been stripped of the gold medals they won in the 53kg, 63kg and 75kg divisions, respectively.
All three tested positive for the steroid stanozolol, with Chinshanlo’s sample also containing oxandrolone. The International Olympic Committee has not said whether the medals will be reallocated to other athletes.