Ukrainian heptathlete Liudmyla Blonska has had her Olympic silver medal taken away and faces a lifetime ban from the sport after failing a drugs test.
Six arrested in drugs swoop
Six people, five Chinese nationals and one Spaniard, were detained yesterday as they were unloading 2.8 tons of hashish near Guardias Viejas beach in El Ejido, Almería.
Four more positive tests – this time horses
Four more positive drugs tests at the Beijing Olympics, all relating to Capsaicin. Derived from chilli peppers, Capsaicin can have hypersensitising effects or act as a pain relief and, in both cases, can improve the performance of a horse.
Medallist tests positive
Heptathlon silver medallist Liudmyla Blonska has apparently tested positive for a banned substance.
Reigning champion will not be defending title
Reigning Olympic 400m hurdles champion Fani Halkia of Greece will not be defending her title as she has failed a drugs test conducted by the World Anti-Doping Agency while she was preparing for the Games in Japan.
Don’t bother to get on the plane
Bulgarian athlete Daniela Yordanova has been barred from the Olympics after failing an out-of-competition doping test in Sofia on 13 June.
Two more Olympic druggies
Two more athletes at the Beijing Olympics have been sent home after failing drugs tests, one of them a double medal winner.
First positive drugs test at Olympics
The Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno, more widely known as Maribel Moreno, has become the first athlete to fail a drugs test at the Beijing Olympics.
Big bust
National Police officers have seized 316 kilos of top grade heroin in the biggest bust of its kind in Spain.
Busted
Guardia Civil officers in Nerja arrested a local foreign resident who was carrying 14 grams of cocaine and a load of hashish.