Russian Evgeniia Kolodko, the 2012 Olympic women’s shot put silver medalist, is one of the 23 athletes from the London Olympics whose doping samples came up positive in recent retests, her husband, Canadian Olympic shot put medalist Dylan Armstrong, said in a Tuesday statement, according to CBC.
Kolodko originally took bronze in the 2012 Olympic shot put but was upgraded to silver after the original winner, Nadzeya Ostapchuk of Belarus, failed drug tests.
“I have, earlier this week, learned that my wife Evgeniia Kolodko, a Russian Olympic Athlete whom I met in 2012 and married in a private civil ceremony in British Columbia Canada in September 2015, is among the eight Russian athletes recently named by the International Olympic Committee as testing positive for doping during the 2012 London Olympics,” Armstrong said in the statement, adding that he did not know Kolodko before the London Games, according to CBC.