Athletes who won & lost their medals - Here’s a look at the celebrate- Navbharat Times Photodhamal

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Here’s a look at the celebrated players who won and lost their medals after they were found guilty;

International Olympic Committee (IOC) stripped the American rider Lance Armstrong after his confession in January 2013 in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. The confession came after a US Anti-Doping Agency report detailed widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs by Armstrong and his USPS team .Armstrong was stripped of the seven Tour de France titles he won from 1999-2005.

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Marion Jones fell from grace even after winning five medals at the Sydney Olympics and had to return all her medals and prizes dating back to September 2000. This was after she admitted in October 2007 that she had taken performance-enhancing drugs while participating in the Sydney Olympics and had lied about it to a grand jury.

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Belarusian shot putter, Nadzeya Ostapchuk is among one of the yet-another entries to the never won the London Olympics medal club. At 31, she was competing in her third Olympic Games at London 2012 after having finished fourth in Athens in 2004 and claiming bronze in Beijing. While Nadzeya has referred to the Olympics dope test as "nonsense", Valerie Adams from New Zealand is keen to return her silver medal to get the gold as soon as the Belarusian shot putter returns it.

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Moroccan-Bahraini track and field athlete Rashid Ramzi won a gold at the Beijing Olympics, it was Bahrain's first Olympic success. The athlete was richly rewarded and feted on his return. But things took a drastic turn when he tested positive for doping and was stripped of his gold medal that he had won for the 1,500 meters. The results were revealed in 2009 and in 2010, he was banned for two years by the Bahrain Athletics Association, which backdated his ban to May 3, 2009.

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France's Mahiedine Mekhissi was stripped of his gold medal and disqualified from the European Athletics Championships in Zurich on Thursday after peeling off his shirt before he crossed the line in first place in the 3,000-metre steeplechase.

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