Dave Collins, who lost his job as UK Athletics performance director after Britain failed to achieve their target of five medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, has expressed his frustration at the news that three more medals stand to be awarded to them following retrospective doping bans.

More positive doping tests have been found by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as they continue to re-analyse samples from the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Games.

Europe’s highest-ranking weightlifting administrator says the sport needs to make fundamental changes to its culture, its rules and the way competitions are presented.

Let’s begin by giving the International Olympic Committee (IOC) a little credit.

By storing Olympic athletes’ anti-doping samples for possible reanalysis for a number of years, in the knowledge that analytical methods will probably improve over time, the IOC has put in place a valuable tool that could, if utilised to fullest extent, afford periodic snapshots of the true level of doping in elite sport, albeit some years after the event.

Turkish weightlifter Sibel Özkan will officially lose her Beijing 2008 Olympic silver medal after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed her appeal against her retroactive disqualification from the 48 kilograms event by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for doping.

In a press release back in May, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach insisted they were "showing once more our determination to protect the integrity of the Olympic competitions" by retesting samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

Aksana Miankova of Belarus will be stripped of the Olympic hammer throw gold medal she won at Beijing 2008 after she was among the seven latest athletes to be sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of their ongoing retesting of samples.

Two Russians who won gold medals at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games have opted to appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) after being retrospectively disqualified from Beijing 2008.

Another 16 athletes have been sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today, following positive retests from the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. 

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) is set to take over the results management of 11 re-analysis cases from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 following the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Disciplinary Commission’s recent disqualification of results. 

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Jamaican sprinter Nesta Carter is poised to learn his fate after an International Olympic Committee (IOC) disciplinary panel met to discuss his results following retests of Beijing 2008 doping samples.

Russian high jumper Anna Chicherova, the London 2012 Olympic champion, has been stripped of her bronze medal from the Beijing 2008 after her doping samples were retested and came back positive for anabolic steroids.

Greek triple jumper Hrysopiyi Devetsi has had her bronze medal result at the 2008 Olympics annulled today by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Frustration is growing amid some officials within the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Executive Board towards the International Olympic Committee (IOC) due to the lack of sanctions brought against athletes the sport’s governing body has revealed to have been implicated in the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 retests.