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Four 2008 Olympians Lose Medals to Doping

The International Olympic Committee has disqualified six more athletes from the 2008 Beijing Games after a re-analysis of doping samples tested positive.  Four of the six were awarded medals at those games. The IOC said in a statement Wednesday that Russian weightlifters Nadezhda Evstyukhina and Marina Shainova, who won bronze and silver medals respectively, will be stripped of their medals.  Sprinter Tatyana Firova, who won a silver medal in 2008, will lose her medal as...


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