Fani Halkia, Greece’s former 400m hurdles Olympic champion, has been handed over a ban of two years for her positive dope test at the Beijing Games, according to an announcement by the Greek athletics federation.

The athletics federation confirmed the decision made by its judicial committee for awarding a punishment to the former star.

From Foxsports.com.au:

A gold medallist at Athens in 2004 Halkia was expelled from the Beijing Olympics after testing positive for the banned steroid Methyltrienolone.

Halkia, her coach and two other athletes who failed tests also face maximum sentences of five years in prison in Greece over their respective cases.

The four suspects deny any wrongdoing and Halkia claims she was the victim of sabotage.

The same drug had previously been found in the samples of over a dozen Greek athletes in other disciplines, severely embarrassing Greek authorities in the run-up to Beijing 2008.

The International Olympic Committee hired legal representation in Greece and sued coach of Halkia for bringing damage to its reputation.

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