Turkey’s Asli Cakir Alptekin stripped of Olympic 1500m title for doping

The 29-year-old Turkish athlete struck the deal as she had risked a life ban having been suspended for doping for two years in 2004.

She won gold in London after lowering her personal best time by nearly nine seconds throughout the season.

Bulut is again set to benefit, being promoted from silver to gold.

Cakir-Alptekin tested positive for doping twice, once in 2004 and again between 2010 and 2012.

Ms Cakir-Alptekin is found to have committed a second anti-doping rule violation, after a first one committed in 2004, and shall serve a period of ineligibility of eight years, to expire at midnight on 9 January 2021.

Cas says Alptekin has forfeited all her results from 29 July 2010, including the 2012 Olympic gold and her 2012 European Championship title.

The ruling also stated that the eight-year ban is the maximum for a second blood doping offence. 17, 2012, “is upheld by default” because of the runner’s consent.

The agreement published by CAS notes that “she is unable to substantiate the explanations she has offered for those values, and therefore is unable to rebut the IAAF’s assertion that those values are the result of some form of blood manipulation”.

“This robust punishment sends a clear message to would-be cheats”.

He added that a “zero tolerance policy against doping” would be applied to leave a clean future in sports for the upcoming generations.

The women’s 3,000m steeplechase champion, Yuliya Mikhailovna, has had her victory from the Games annulled and will be forced to surrender her medal at the end of a Court of Arbitration for Sport hearing.

Coe came out fighting when reports emerged two weeks ago of a leaked database of 5,000 athletes’ blood samples, which leading scientists said showed a third of medallists in Olympic and World Championship endurance events between 2001 and 2012 had suspicious readings.