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Tallent holds mock medal ceremony after Russian doping report

MELBOURNE, Olympic champion walker Jared Tallent has been awarded a gold medal in a mock ceremony in the wake of reports that dozens of athletes failed retrospective drug tests from the 2008 Beijing Games.

The Australian was confirmed as the London Games' 50 km walk gold medallist in March after Russian Sergey Kirdyapkin was stripped of the title for doping following a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling.

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