IOC reanalysis programme Beijing 2008 and London 2012 : latest updated on 30 november 2017 / The International Olympic Committee (IOC). - Lausanne : IOC, 2017
To provide a level playing field for all clean athletes at the Olympic Games Rio 2016, the IOC put special measures in place, including targeted pre-tests and the reanalysis of stored samples from the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and London 2012, following an intelligence-gathering process that started in August 2015 – in consultation with WADA and International Federations (IFs).
The additional analyses on samples collected during the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were performed with improved analytical methods, in order to possibly detect prohibited substances that could not be identified by the analysis performed at the time of these editions of the Olympic Games.
For reference, some reanalysis of the stored samples of Beijing 2008 and London 2012 was already conducted in 2009 and 2015 respectively, leading to the sanctioning of six athletes. The programme for Beijing samples has concluded due to the statute of limitations.
Beijing 2008: 65 (5 following 2009 reanalysis wave + 60 following 2016 reanalysis waves)
London 2012: 49 (1 following 2015 reanalysis wave + 43 following 2016 / 2017 reanalysis waves + 5 following targeted re-analyses in the context of the Independent Person Report)
