WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Olympic shotput champion Valerie Adams had expected her former rival Nadzeya Ostapchuk to get a life ban for doping offences that saw her stripped of the London Olympics and 2005 world championships gold medals, the New Zealander's manager has said.
Ostapchuk has been handed a retrospective four-year ban, which ends on August 14, 2016, after she tested positive for the banned steroid metenolone after pipping Adams for gold at the London Games in 2012.
