Shannon Rowbury will soon be an Olympic bronze medalist—for a race she ran 12 years ago. The US runner originally placed sixth in the women’s 1,500-meter final at the.
Shannon Rowbury will soon be an Olympic bronze medalist—for a race she ran 12 years ago. The US runner originally placed sixth in the women’s 1,500-meter final at the 2012 London Olympics. But since that day, five of the 13 runners have either been disqualified or are set to be disqualified for doping violations, reports CNN, which says the race is considered “one of the dirtiest races in the history of track and field.” The two Turkish runners who originally placed first and second, Asli Cakir Alptekin and Gamze Bulut, were disqualified; then Russian Tatyana Tomashova, who originally placed fourth and was then moved into second place following those disqualifications, was herself disqualified.
