31.   A second sample will now be taken from the Olympic silver medallist and analysed to confirm the findings of the first.

32.   All-around silver medallist Svetlana Boginskaya of Belarus narrowly missed the bronze.

33.   Among those calling for the improvements were bronze medallist rower Jonny Searle and three silver medallists -- athletes Iwan Thomas and Jamie Baulch and yachtsman Ben Ainslie.

34.   American Scott Donie, the Barcelona platform silver medallist who switched to springboard is also a contender.

35.   And in other events, silver medallists at the Olympic Games upstaged their conquerors.

36.   Anna Kournikova edged past Sydney Olympic silver medallist Elena Dementieva in a battle of the Russian glamour queens in the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament second round Thursday.

37.   Australia will be up against Olympic champions the Netherlands, silver medallists Spain, Germany, Pakistan and hosts India.

38.   Australian Tim Forsyth won a titanic jump-off with world bronze and European silver medallist Steve Smith to grab the high jump title.

39.   Biathlon pursuit silver medallist Raphael Poiree of France, whose wife, Liv Grete, is also a biathlete.

40.   But Alexander Zhulin of Russia, a former Olympic silver medallist and now a coach, believes that the French pair could become the scapegoats of the scandal.