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BEIJING, China (AP) -- Lyudmila Blonska of Ukraine is under investigation for a positive doping test and could be stripped of her silver medal in the Olympic heptathlon.
Blonska served a doping suspension between 2003-05 and if guilty of a second offense faces a lifetime ban.
The International Olympic Committee said that it had opened a disciplinary procedure into Blonska, who finished second behind fellow-Ukrainian Nataliia Dobrynska last Saturday.
The 30-year-old Blonska served a doping suspension for the steroid Stanozolol between 2003 and 2005.
If the second sample proves positive on Thursday "she will be suspended for life," Lamine Diack, the president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, said in an interview.
What would happen if Blonska was found guilty of doping?