U.S. high jumper Chaunte Lowe is one step closer to receiving a bronze medal from the 2008 Olympics, even though she originally finished sixth in Beijing.
Original bronze medalist Anna Chicherova of Russia, who was retroactively disqualified last October for failing a retest of a 2008 doping sample for an anabolic steroid, had her appeal of the DQ dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
In all, doping samples from the original third-, fourth- and fifth-place finishers (two Russians and a Ukrainian) all came back positive for the banned steroid turinabol in results announced last year.