18 Jan 2009

Tsoumeleka tests positive for EPO

9:16 am on 18 January 2009

Greece's 2004 Athens Olympic 20-kilometre walk champion Athanasia Tsoumeleka has tested positive for the bloodbooster erythropoietin (EPO), the state broadcaster Net reports.

The broadcaster says she tested positive in August last year, just two days before the opening ceremony for the Beijing Games.