OLYMPICS: Ukrainian stripped of Beijing bronze

This file photo taken on December 10, 2015 shows International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach delivers a speech during a press conference closing an executive meeting at the International Olympic Committe headquarters in Lausanne. IOC president Thomas Bach said on May 18, 2016 that "dozens" of athletes could be banned from the forthcoming Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after new tests on samples from previous games. / AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI

Ukraine’s Viktoriya Tereshchuk has been stripped of the bronze medal she won in the modern pentathlon at the 2008 Beijing Games after sample re-tests showed up positive for banned steroid turinabol.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said the 35-year-old tested positive after targeted re-analysis of stored samples from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics following an intelligence-gathering process that started in August 2015.

In total, the IOC is reanalysing 1,545 samples from Beijing and London using testing techniques not available at the time. As of Wednesday, the number of positive tests from the reanalysed samples is 102.