Following stripping Russia of a relay gold medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, Nigeria will be moved up to silver while, Brazil gets the bronze medal. Belgium stands to be upgraded to the gold medal.
The Nigeria Relay team comprised of Franca Idoko, Gloria Kemasuode, Halimat Ismaila and Oludamola Osayomi ran a time of 43.08secs to clinch the bronze medal back then.
The decision to disqualify the Russia team is sequel to one of its female runners testing positive for steroids in a reanalysis of her doping samples.
Tuesday’s decision was another black eye for Russia, whose track and field team was banned from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics over allegations of state-sponsored doping. Investigations are continuing into wider systematic doping in Russia involving dozens of other summer and winter Olympic sports.