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Two more athletes join the list of shame as they fail drugs test

The total number of doping violations in Beijing has risen to three after two more athletes tested positive for drugs.

Kim Jong Su, a North Korean pistol shooter, was stripped of two medals and expelled from the Games after testing positive for the betablocker Propanolol, which can prevent shaking.

A Vietnamese gymnast, Thi Ngan Thuong Do, who finished last in the women's floor exercise, also failed a doping test.

Professor Arne Ljungqvist, chairman of the International Olympic Committee's medical commission, said he believed Kim had deliberately taken the drug.

"I cannot interpret the finding in any other way than it was deliberate," he added.

"It is banned in precision sports such as shooting and archery."

The USA's Jason Turner will now be awarded Kim's bronze medal in the 10m air pistol event. China's Tan Zongliang takes his silver in the 50m pistol event, with Russia's Vladimir Isakov moving up to bronze.

Ljungqvist said he believed the Vietnamese gymnast had taken the drug inadvertently as part of medication.

Spanish cyclist Maria Isabel Moreno was the first athlete to test positive for drugs at the Games.

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