Another Olympic 'dope' loses his gold medal

Athens - Hungary's Robert Fazekas will become the second athletics gold medallist of the Athens Games to be stripped of his title for a doping infraction, an International Olympic Committee source said Tuesday.

Discus champion Fazekas, caught trying to switch his urine sample during a drugs test, will lose the title he won on Monday and be expelled from the Games, the IOC source said.

His sanction came a day after women's shot put winner Irina Korzhanenko had her gold taken away and was thrown out of the games on after testing positive for banned steroid stanozolol.

Korzhanenko was the first track and field gold medallist to fail a doping test since Ben Johnson at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

The news of Fazekas's offence came just hours before the evening athletics session at the Olympic stadium, where six gold medals were to be awarded.