Two more fail drug tests

Fritz Aanes has tested positive for drugs

Armenian weightlifter Ashot Danielyan has been stripped of his bronze medal after failing a drugs test.

Danielyan, the fourth weightlifter to lose a medal over doping at the Games, forfeited his bronze in the superheavyweight division after testing positive for stanozolol.

This is the same steroid found in the urine of Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson after he won the men's 100 metres at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Norwegian wrestler Fritz Aanes, who came fourth in the 85 kg Greco-Roman wrestling, also tested positive in competition for the steroid nandrolone.

He has been disqualified.

On the final day, the number of positive cases in competition tests at the Games stood at seven, though there are still samples to be analysed from the last few days of the Sydney Olympics.

Under Olympic rules fourth-placed Russian lifter Andrei Chemerkin will receive the bronze medal in the men's superheavyweight division after it was stripped from Danielyan.

Amid the weightlifting controversy International Olympic Committee (IOC) medical commission member Jacques Rogge, tipped to become the next president of the IOC next year, has added his support to the under-fire sport.

"Weightlifting is doing its maximum. It is the only federation which tested all the athletes before the Games," he said.

"It is one of the fundamental sports because, for a man or a woman to lift the biggest possible weight is one of the very fundamental things like running fast or jumping high. It's a universal sport."

He added: "Therefore it should be kept in the Games but they have to address the problem of one or two rogue federations."