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Comment (Ukraine's Olympic heptathlon silver medallist Liudmyla Blonska has failed a drugs test, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has confirmed.
The 30-year-old's A sample tested positive for a banned substance, but the IOC source said they were still awaiting the results of the B sample.
The Disciplinary Commission of the IOC will hold a meeting before passing on their recommendations to the Executive Board.
"There has been an adverse finding in her A sample against her (Blonska)," the source said.
"And there is a process being followed against her. However, she has not been stripped of her medal.
"There will be a Disciplinary Commission hearing about her case on Thursday morning and because she is a medallist it will be then passed to the Executive Board."
The Ukrainian had already served a previous ban for testing positive in 2003 for stanozolol, the anabolic steroid used by the disgraced sprinter Ben Johnson.
She now faces a l...
