American runner Lashinda Demus has formally change into an Olympic champion on the age of 40 and greater than a decade after the 2012 London Games. The International Olympic Committee has formally reallocated Demus the gold medal within the 400-meter hurdles. The unique winner was Natalya Antyukh of Russia who was later implicated in doping.
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American runner Lashinda Demus formally turned an Olympic champion on Thursday, on the age of 40 and greater than a decade after the 2012 London Games.
Demus was formally reallocated the gold medal within the 400-meter hurdles by the International Olympic Committee due to the disqualification of Natalya Antyukh in fallout from the Russian doping scandal.
On the London monitor on Aug. 8, 2012, Demus completed 0.07 seconds behind Antyukh, who was implicated final yr within the second doping case of her profession.
Historical proof recovered from a Moscow testing laboratory database let monitor’s Athletics Integrity Unit resolve final October to strip Antyukh of all her outcomes from July 2012 by way of June 2013.
Demus will obtain a gold medal from the IOC so as to add to her world title received in 2011. However, she was denied throughout her profession the business advantages of calling herself an Olympic champion.
Zuzana Hejnová of Czechia was upgraded to silver, and the bronze was reallocated to Kaliese Spencer of Jamaica, the IOC mentioned.
When the AIU ruling was made 5 months in the past, Antyukh was already serving a four-year ban in a earlier case that disqualified all her outcomes from 2013 to 2015.
