Doper’s medal sold on ebay

Cuban discus thrower Yarelys Barrios has been ordered to return her Olympic silver medal after reanalysed doping tests showed a positive result for the prohibited substance acetazolamide – but it was apparently sold on ebay.

The International Olympic Committee yesterday stripped Barrios of her second place at the 2008 Beijing Games and issued a demand for the immediate return of her medal, but a silver medal advertised on ebay, shown in photographs as being from the Beijing 2008 women’s discus event, was sold in June by a Cuban seller based in Canada for $11,655.