LONG after they were revealed as drugs cheats, athletes such as Asli Cakir Alptekin, Sergey Kirdyapkin and Yuliya Zaripova continued to be listed as London 2012 gold medallists on the International Olympic Committee’s official website.
But after several articles in Dip Finish and the editorial leader column of AW during the summer, the IOC has finally erased the names of the above dopers from their site.
The London 2012 results listed at olympic.org/london-2012/athletics have been cleaned up considerably, but there is still work to do.