Tag: Sibel Özkan
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IOC sanctions Turkish weightlifter for failing anti-doping test at Beijing 2008
Lausanne, July 22, 2016: The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that Turkish weightlifter Sibel Özkan, 28, of Turkey has been disqualified from the Games of the XXIX Olympiad Beijing 2008 and ordered to return the silver medal from the 48kg weightlifting event. Reanalysis of Özkan’s samples from Beijing 2008 resulted in the presence of…