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When British athlete Lisa Dobriskey finished 10th in the women’s 1500m final at London 2012, she did not hold back.<\/b><\/p>\n
“I don’t believe I’m competing on a level playing field,” she told the BBC at the time.<\/p>\n
The race has been described as the dirtiest in history,<\/a> with six of the first nine finishers falling foul of anti-doping regulations, the latest being Tatyana Tomashova.<\/p>\n The Russian middle-distance runner, now 49, was on Tuesday stripped of the silver medal she won in that event, as well as being banned from the sport for 10 years.<\/p>\n She was sanctioned after testing positive in 2021 for anabolic steroids in re-tests of her out-of-competition samples from June 21, 2012 and July 17, 2012, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said.<\/p>\n Dobriskey’s British team-mate Laura Weightman finished 11th in the race 12 years ago but that has risen to sixth as a result of others having their results removed.<\/p>\n “11th to 6th in the years since the London 2012 final. Hard to comprehend,” Weightman said on Instagram following the news of Tomashova’s ban.<\/p>\n “I’ll always be proud of my career and showing what is possible running clean.”<\/p>\n Two-time world champion Tomashova, who had also received a doping ban in 2008, originally finished fourth in the 1500m final but that was upgraded after Turkish runners Asli Cakir Alptekin and Gamze Bulut lost their medals for doping.<\/p>\n Bahrain’s Maryam Yusuf Jamal won the gold medal, despite crossing the line third behind Cakir Alptekin and Bulut.<\/p>\n Tomashova’s punishment means Dobriskey will now be elevated to a fifth-place finish in the race.<\/p>\n