Samoan weightlifter Ele Opeloge set to be awarded Samoa's first Olympic medal BY STAFF REPORTERS APIA, SAMOA - THURSDAY 26 OCTOBER 2016: Samoa is set to win its first Olympic medal, eight years after the 2008 Beijing Olympics where weightlifter Ele Opeloge finished a close fourth in the 75kg division. Ele Opeloge is now assured of winning an Olympic medal after one of her competitors failed doping test was confirmed by the International Olympic Committee. But in August, a re-analysis of samples from eight years ago found the silver medalist, Olha Korobka from Ukraine, and bronze medalist, Mariya Grabovetskaya [...]
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