MOSCOW (AP) — Russian track and field athletes haven’t been giving up their medals in Olympic doping cases, and local officials have vowed to kick them off the national team until they do.
The Russian track federation said Thursday only one medal has been returned out of 23 which must be handed back because of failed retests of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Games.
The only medal returned so far is a bronze won by Anton Kokorin in the men’s 4x400m relay at the 2008 Olympics. Kokorin didn’t test positive, but teammate Denis Alexeyev‘s disqualification for a banned steroid means the whole team must give their medals back.