Runner in 2012 'dirtiest race' gets 10-year ban

When British jock Lisa Dobriskey finished 10th successful the women's 1500m last astatine London 2012, she did not clasp back.

"I don't judge I'm competing connected a level playing field," she told the BBC astatine the time.

The contention has been described arsenic the dirtiest successful history, with six of the archetypal 9 finishers falling foul of anti-doping regulations, the latest being Tatyana Tomashova.

The Russian middle-distance runner, present 49, was connected Tuesday stripped of the metallic medal she won successful that event, arsenic good arsenic being banned from the athletics for 10 years.

She was sanctioned aft investigating affirmative successful 2021 for anabolic steroids successful re-tests of her out-of-competition samples from June 21, 2012 and July 17, 2012, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said.

Dobriskey's British team-mate Laura Weightman finished 11th successful the contention 12 years agone but that has risen to sixth arsenic a effect of others having their results removed.

"11th to 6th successful the years since the London 2012 final. Hard to comprehend," Weightman said connected Instagram pursuing the quality of Tomashova's ban.

"I'll ever beryllium arrogant of my vocation and showing what is imaginable moving clean."

Two-time satellite champion Tomashova, who had besides received a doping prohibition successful 2008, primitively finished 4th successful the 1500m last but that was upgraded aft Turkish runners Asli Cakir Alptekin and Gamze Bulut mislaid their medals for doping.

Bahrain's Maryam Yusuf Jamal won the golden medal, contempt crossing the enactment 3rd down Cakir Alptekin and Bulut.

Tomashova's punishment means Dobriskey volition present beryllium elevated to a fifth-place decorativeness successful the race.

In a 2016 interview,, external she recalled however hard it had been to spot Cakir Alptekin observe her triumph astatine the time.

"I stood determination and saw her embark connected a thigh of honour and knew she'd cheated," she said.

"We were down to ticker the past time but that included the 1500m medal ceremonial and I didn't privation to beryllium there. I couldn't beryllium determination erstwhile that was happening."

Ethiopian-born Swede Abeba Aregawi, who besides had an anti-doping usurpation successful 2016 but escaped a ban, lone received her reallocated bronze medal successful a peculiar ceremonial astatine the Paris Olympics past month.

That medal volition present beryllium upgraded to silver.