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New doping tests on athletes who competed in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics have uncovered scores of violations.

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New doping tests on athletes who competed in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics have uncovered scores of violations.
Monday, November 21, 2016 1:28 PM EST

After revelations of a massive, state-run doping program in Russia, sports officials have been retesting urine samples from the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, in Beijing and London. Their findings have resulted in a top-to-bottom rewriting of Olympics history.

More than 75 athletes from those two Olympics have been found, upon further scrutiny, to be guilty of doping violations. The majority are from Russia and other Eastern European countries. At least 40 of them won medals. Disciplinary proceedings are continuing against other athletes, and the numbers are expected to climb.
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