The International Olympic Committee has opened disciplinary proceedings against 31 unnamed athletes from 12 countries who competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics after retesting their drug samples from 2008 revealed positive tests. The IOC will inform the relevant national Olympic committees of the positive tests in the coming days for legal reasons. The IOC also urged an investigation into allegations of Russian officials tampering with drug tests from the 2014 Sochi Winter Games and plans to reanalyze samples from those games.

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2. In a major doping crackdown, the International Olympic
Committee has opened disciplinary proceedings against 31
unidentified athletes from 12 countries who competed in
the 2008 Beijing Games and were about to take part in the
Rio de Janeiro Games in August.
The IOC made the announcement after retesting of drug
samples from the 2008 Beijing Games. The IOC remarked
the positive cases from the Beijing Games emerged from
the recent retesting of 454 doping samples with the very
latest scientific analysis methods. In a statement, the IOC
said it would not immediately identify the athletes caught
for legal reasons but would inform the relevant national
Olympic committees in the coming days.

3. The IOC urged the World Anti-Doping Agency to initiate
a "fully-fledged investigation" into recent allegations that
the Sochi drug-testing system was subverted by Russian
officials.
IOC President Thomas Bach said this is a powerful strike
against athletes who dope and added this shows once
again that dopers have no place to hide. The International
Olympic Committee is also planning to reanalyze drug
tests from the 2014 Sochi Winter Games after allegations
were made by Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the
Russian anti-doping laboratory, that samples were
tampered with as part of a state-sponsored Russian doping
program.