FILE PHOTO - Ukraine's Viktoriya Tereshchuk practises between rounds at the fencing event during the women's modern pentathlon at the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Copper Box August 12, 2012. REUTERS/Toby Melville
(Reuters) - Viktoriya Tereshchuk failed a doping test and has been stripped of the bronze medal she won in the women's modern pentathlon at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday.
A re-test of the 35-year-old Ukrainian's sample discovered the anabolic steroid turinabol, the IOC said.
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