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		</div><p>Russia&#8217;s appalling doping record continues to bring shame on the country as three more of its athletes were belatedly disqualified from the Beijing Olympics for testing positive in the re-analysis of samples from the last two Games.</p>
<p>The International Olympic Committee has re-tested hundreds of stored samples from 2008 and 2012 this year, catching 98 dopers, including 14 Russians from athletics alone.</p>
<p>The most notable of the three cases completed by the IOC&#8217;s disciplinary commission in Rio on Friday relates to 400m runner Anastasia Kapachinskaya, who finished fifth in the individual event in Beijing and claimed a silver medal in the relay.</p>
<p>Russia now loses that relay result and the team must return their medals. Jamaica will be upgraded to silver, with Belarus taking bronze and the British quartet fourth.</p>
<p>This is the second positive test of Kapachinskaya&#8217;s career &#8211; this time for two steroids &#8211; and the 36-year-old&#8217;s case will now be referred to the International Association of Athletics Federations with a life ban being almost certain.</p>
<p>This, however, will remind many athletes and fans of former World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound&#8217;s remark that Russia &#8220;sabotaged&#8221; London 2012 by sending a doped team to the Games, as Kapachinskaya was also part of Russia&#8217;s silver medal-winning relay squad there.</p>
<p>The two other Russians to be removed from Beijing&#8217;s record books are Alexander Pogorelov and Ivan Yushkov, both testing positive for steroids.</p>
<p>Pogorelov, who won a decathlon bronze medal at the 2009 world championships, finished fourth in the multi-discipline event in Beijing, while Yushkov was 10th in the shot put. Their cases will also be sent to the IAAF for sanctions to be decided.</p>
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