3 Russian Athletes Disqualified from Beijing Olympics After 2016 Doping Retest

Russia's doping woes continue, as three athletes were disqualified from the 2008 Beijing Games following results of a retest of their drug-test samples.  

Per Sara Germano of the Wall Street Journal, Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Aleksandr Pogorelov and Ivan Yushkov have had their results from eight years ago disqualified. 

Rob Harris of the Associated Press noted that Kapachinskaya won a silver medal as part of Russia's 4x400-meter relay team. 

The three athletes disqualified were previously named along with 11 other Russians who reportedly tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in a retest from the 2008 Olympic doping samples, per Russian news agency TASS (via Sports Illustrated). 

Kapachinskaya previously failed a PED test in March 2004 after winning the 200-meter race at the IAAF World Indoor Championships. She was stripped of her gold medal as a result and was banned from competition for two years. 

Pogorelov and Yushkov did not medal during the 2008 Olympics. Pogorelov finished fourth in the decathlon, 199 points behind Cuba's Leonel Suarez. Yushkov finished 10th in the shot put finals. 

Russia's doping problems have plagued the country during the 2016 Olympics.

There were initially 389 Russian athletes on the list of competition, but only 278 were permitted to compete by the International Olympic Committee as a result of an independent investigation commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency that uncovered a government-dictated system of doping and cover-up.