Sports | 2008 Beijing Olympics Retesting Nails 6 Olympic Drug Cheats New technique exposes athletes' use of banned blood booster By Rob Quinn Posted Apr 29, 2009 6:07 AM CDT Copied Spain's Samuel Sanchez, left, outsprints Italy's Davide Rebellin, right, to win the Men's Road Cycling Race, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena/File) Six Olympic drug cheats have been exposed long after the end of the 2008 Beijing Games, CNN reports. The IOC—which keeps test samples on file for eight years after events finish—rechecked 948 samples after a new test for a banned blood booster was developed. Silver medal-winning Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin is among those whose tests came back positive, the BBC reports. Read These Next Online sleuths expose Epstein file redactions. In this murder, arresting the boyfriend was a big mistake. Sammy Davis Jr.'s ex, Swedish actor May Britt, is dead at 91. After Kennedy Center name change, holiday jazz concert is canceled. Report an error