Beijing Perspective, August 22, 2008, Redo the Heptathlon awards! by Larry Eder

The picture above is that of current bronze medalist in the heptathlon, Hyleas Fountain of the US. Current because, due to the positive A sample for “a steroid”, Lyudmila Blonska,
the silver medalist is about to be banned for life (this is her second bust). My suggestion is that the IOC rerun the awards ceremony so second and third can
get their rightful celebration! What do you think?

Lyudmila Blonska was caught on her A sample for a steroid not yet announced. On Thursday, her B sample was checked, in the presence of Liam Diack, IAAF major domo.
My suggestion has been to redo the Olympic award ceremony in order to show some respect to the women who now move up in the medal chain. I will wait to hear your responses.

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Larry Eder
Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys. Theme song: Greg Allman, " I'm no Angel."
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