MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia's Olympic Committee (ROC) confirmed on Tuesday that doping samples taken from 14 Russian athletes during the 2008 Olympics tested positive after rechecking.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) earlier said that it had retested 454 selected doping samples from the 2008 Beijing Olympics with the assistance of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), focusing on the doping samples of athletes who are expected to go to the Olympic Games in 2016.
"The ROC has received official documents from the IOC notifying that A tests for 14 Russian athletes in three sport varieties that were taken at the 2008 Beijing Olympics came back positive after re-examination," the ROC said in a statement.
