Olympic champion walker Jared Tallent has awarded himself a gold medal in a mock ceremony in the wake of reports that dozens of athletes failed retrospective drug tests from the 2008 Beijing Games. The Australian was confirmed as the 2012 London Games 50km walk gold medallist in March after Russian Sergei Kirdyapkin was stripped of the title for doping following a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling.Tallent will be awarded the medal at a ceremony in Melbourne next month but put in some practice with a couple of friends in a video posted online. In it, Tallent walks through what appears to be a back yard and stands on a step as a voice behind the camera announces him as the winner, from Australia - Jared Tallent.Tallent, who has been training in Italy, stands up on the mock podium and waves in traditional Olympic style before a man comes forward to shake his hand and put a medal around his neck.The 31-year-old also took the 50km silver at the 2008 Beijing Games behind Italys Alex Schwazer, who recently completed a three-year ban for doping after failing a drug test before the London Games. Tallent will receive his real gold in Melbourne The International Olympic Committee said last week that 31 athletes had failed drug tests from the 2008 Games after samples were re-examined.Fourteen of the 31 were Russian athletes, the countrys national Olympic committee said on Tuesday.Russian media named the athletes, one of whom competed against Tallent at the 2011 world championships in Daegu, where the Australian won the bronze medal.Following the Russian media reports, a photo of Tallent was posted on social media showing the Australian crossing out the names of the two Russian race walkers who beat him at Daegu.The winner, Sergey Bakulin, was banned for doping last year by Russian authorities and had his Daegu result disqualified by CAS in its March ruling. The runner-up was Denis Nizhegorodov, who won the 50km bronze at Beijing. Also See: GBs Beijing haul may swell Marshall makes Rio Taylor seals Rio place 14 Russians fail Beijing tests Air Max 270 Donna Scontate .ca NBA Power Rankings, ahead of the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs. Nike Air Max Sconti . The 43-year-old closer, in his 19th and final big league season, has said hed like to play the outfield. Yankees manager Joe Girardi says hes thinking about allowing Rivera to do it this weekend, when the Yankees finish their season with a three-game series at the Houston Astros. http://www.airmaxscarpescontate.it/ . At a Manhattan federal court hearing, attorney Jordan Siev said his law office has gotten more evidence nearly every day to support its lawsuit accusing MLB and Selig of going on a "witch hunt" to ruin Rodriguezs reputation and career. He said the defendants went "way over the line. Air Max 90 Uomo Saldi . Any real chance at payback wont come until the playoff. Still, Pittsburgh knows its taut 3-2 win over the Bruins on Wednesday night is a pretty good place to start laying the groundwork. "They are a very good defensive team," Penguins forward Brandon Sutter said. Vapormax Italia . 1 position. The Mustangs (6-0), who beat Queens 50-31 last weekend, earned 17 first-place votes and 287 points in voting by the Football Reporters of Canada. Western was last ranked first in the country in October 2011. RALEIGH, N.C. -- Lawyers for a man in prison for killing basketball star Michael Jordans father 23 years ago say they found more evidence of police misconduct that clears him in the shooting.Court documents obtained by the News & Observer of Raleigh (http://bit.ly/2h7JAHf ) say a phone call from James Jordans cellphone after he was killed was made to the son of the Robeson County sheriff, who was dealing drugs.Lawyers for 42-year-old Daniel Green say Sheriff Hubert Stone didnt want the Jordan investigatioon to entangle his son, so the sheriff steered authorities toward investigating the crime as a carjacking.ddddddddddddGreen admitted helping dispose of James Jordans body after the July 1993 killing, but says he wasnt around when co-defendant Larry Demery shot him.Demery testified against Green in a plea deal.---Information from: The News & Observer, http://www.newsobserver.com ' ' '