ANDREW STEELE says the situation surrounding his likely Olympic bronze medal from Beijing 2008 is reminiscent of American shot putter Adam Nelson, who was awarded Olympic gold from 2004 some years later in the car park of a local McDonald’s restaurant.
Steele was part of the British 4x400m team who finished fourth at the Games eight years ago, and could be boosted up to third after Russian 400m runner Denis Alexeev was disqualified following a re-test of one of his doping samples.
Steele heard of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) official announcement of Alexeev’s disqualification while standing in a clothes store in New York.
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16 CROSS COUNTRY GUIDE
Six pages of fixtures for this winter
ACTION
6 RIO PARALYMPICS
Part two of our coverage from
Brazil with more medals for GB
40 BRITISH MASTERS
Steve Peters, Pat Logan and Arthur
Thomson are among the winners
PERFORMANCE
32 Sports science news
34 Coach Insight – James Thie
36 Developing lower limbs stiffness
38 Products – compression garments
NEWS
26 Libby Clegg on Rio double
28 Hackers target Olympic champs
28 Tirunesh Dibaba to race in Britain
PREVIEWS
55 Preview of the Great Bristol
Half-marathon, plus TV guide
RESULTS & FIXTURES
46 Results round-up
57 What’s On – events coming up
REGULARS
22 Young Athlete
24 Your Say
61 Quiz – test your athletics knowledge
62 Dip Finish