Russian weightlifters face losing Olympic medals after positive B samples
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Two Russian female weightlifters face being stripped of their Olympic medals after positive drug tests.
Russian news agency Tass reported the coach of Marina Shainova saying her B sample, and that of Nadezhda Evstyukhina, 28, have tested positive.
Vladimir Shainov said: "Certainly, her medal will be taken away and she will be disqualified. Evstyukhina is in the same situation."
Shainova, 30, won a silver medal and Evstyukhina a bronze at Beijing 2008.
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