Cuba discus thrower Yarelys Barrios stripped of 2008 Beijing Olympics silver medal Thursday Sep 01,2016

Cuba’s Yarelys Barrios has been stripped of the silver medal she won in the discus at the Beijing Olympics after failing a doping re-test, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday Sep 01,2016

The IOC also said that Qatari sprinter Samuel Adelebari Francis had also failed a re-test and had been disqualified from the men’s 100 metres in which he finished 16th.


Cuba’s Yarelys Barrios and Qatari sprinter Samuel Adelebari Francis were among 98 athletes who have tested positive in reanalysis of samples from both the 2008 Beijing Games and the 2012 London Olympics.

The IOC ordered samples from the two Games to be re-tested using new techniques not available at the time of the competitions in attempt to root out cheating.