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While the IOC says it cannot yet release names or other detailed information, the Committee did announce that of those 30 positive samples from Beijing, 23 of them came from Olympic medalists.<\/p>\n<p>To date, only two names have been officially released in association with positive retests. Both of those athletes are weightlifters-\u00a0<strong>Sibel \u00d6zkan\u00a0<\/strong>of Turkey and Ukraine&#8217;s\u00a0<strong><strong>Yulia Kalina<\/strong><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/31-athletes-caught-doping-in-retest-of-2008-olympic-samples\/\" target=\"_blank\">first wave<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/23-positive-doping-retests-from-2012-london-olympics\/\" target=\"_blank\">retests<\/a> revealed positive tests from 2008 belonging to athletes from 12 nations and six sports. London&#8217;s positive retests came from six countries and five sports.<\/p>\n<p>The second wave now shows positive tests from athletes from eight nations and four sports in 2008 and nine nations and two sports in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC&#8217;s release says, &#8220;All athletes found to have infringed the anti-doping rules will be banned from competing at the Olympic Games Rio 2016.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These results come at the end of what has already been a busy week of doping news. On Monday, the independent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/what-the-independent-investigation-into-russias-systematic-doping-program-means-to-swimming\/\" target=\"_blank\">McLaren Report<\/a>\u00a0was released. More news of systematic doping in Russia\u00a0elicited <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ioc-and-ipc-issue-statements-in-response-to-mclaren-report\/\" target=\"_blank\">responses<\/a> from athletes, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/wada-issues-recommendations-wants-russia-banned-from-rio\/\" target=\"_blank\">organizations<\/a>\u00a0worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from the International Olympic Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympic.org\/news\/second-wave-of-reanalysis-reveals-banned-substances-in-45-athletes-from-beijing-and-london\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that results from the second round of retests from the 2008 and 2012 Games have returned. 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