Javelin thrower Veselý to get bronze from 2012 London Olympics

Czech javelin thrower Vítězslav Veselý will get a bronze medal from the 2012 Olympic Games in London after a retroactive disqualification of his Ukrainian colleague Oleksandr Pyatnytsya. The 31-year-old Ukrainian was stripped of his silver medal after he tested positive for the steroid turinabol and was ordered by the International Olympic Committee to return it. He was one of four more athletes sanctioned Tuesday by the IOC after retests of stored samples from London and the 2008 Beijing Games. Veselý had originally ended in fourth place, behind Antti Ruuskanen of Finland.

Author: Ruth Fraňková