When British athlete Lisa Dobriskey completed tenth within the ladies’s 1500m last at London 2012, she didn’t maintain again.
“I do not consider I am competing on a degree taking part in discipline,” she advised the BBC on the time.
The race has been described because the dirtiest in historical past, with six of the primary 9 finishers falling foul of anti-doping rules, the newest being Tatyana Tomashova.
The Russian middle-distance runner, now 49, was on Tuesday stripped of the silver medal she received in that occasion, in addition to being banned from the game for 10 years.
She was sanctioned after testing optimistic in 2021 for anabolic steroids in re-tests of her out-of-competition samples from June 21, 2012 and July 17, 2012, the Courtroom of Arbitration for Sport stated.
Dobriskey’s British team-mate Laura Weightman completed eleventh within the race 12 years in the past however that has risen to sixth on account of others having their outcomes eliminated.
“eleventh to sixth within the years because the London 2012 last. Exhausting to grasp,” Weightman stated on Instagram following the information of Tomashova’s ban.
“I am going to all the time be pleased with my profession and exhibiting what is feasible working clear.”
Two-time world champion Tomashova, who had additionally obtained a doping ban in 2008, initially completed fourth within the 1500m last however that was upgraded after Turkish runners Asli Cakir Alptekin and Gamze Bulut misplaced their medals for doping.
Bahrain’s Maryam Yusuf Jamal received the gold medal, regardless of crossing the road third behind Cakir Alptekin and Bulut.
Tomashova’s punishment means Dobriskey will now be elevated to a fifth-place end within the race.
In a 2016 interview,, exterior she recalled how troublesome it had been to see Cakir Alptekin rejoice her victory on the time.
“I stood there and noticed her embark on a lap of honour and knew she’d cheated,” she stated.
“We have been down to look at the final day however that included the 1500m medal ceremony and I did not wish to be there. I could not be there when that was taking place.”
Ethiopian-born Swede Abeba Aregawi, who additionally had an anti-doping violation in 2016 however escaped a ban, solely obtained her reallocated bronze medal in a particular ceremony on the Paris Olympics final month.
That medal will now be upgraded to silver.