— Published June 7, 2016

Chicherova negative in London

Russia

Anna Chicherova, the reigning Olympic high jump champion, explained it herself on the sidelines of an athletics meeting in Russia: the re-analysis of her sample from the 2012 London Games came back negative . The Russian athlete, who tested positive at the Beijing Olympics in 2008, where she won the bronze medal, also confided that the opening and re-analysis of the B sample of her anti-doping control in Beijing 2008 would be done on Wednesday June 8.