North Korean shooter stripped of Beijing Olympic medals
Here’s another advantage of doing the medal count by hand. When we were adjusting the medal count this morning, we noticed that North Korea had moved DOWN in the medal count. I thought perhaps I had made a mistake, but figured I’d better check it out anyway. I didn’t see any major headlines about medals being stripped from anyone, even on the NBC site, but upon further research I found an article that stated that several athletes had tested positive for prohibited substances, including North Korea’s Kim Jong-Su, who won silver and bronze in shooting events. Because of the positive test, North Korea’s medal count was revised to one gold, one silver and three bronze.