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Weightlifting: Russia, China handed one-year doping bans

Updated on: 02 October,2017 10:51 AM IST  |  Paris
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Russia and China were banned from international weightlifting, ruling them out of the World Championships, after reanalysed drugs tests from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics returned at least three positive results each

Weightlifting: Russia, China handed one-year doping bans

Russia and China were banned from international weightlifting, ruling them out of the World Championships, after reanalysed drugs tests from the 2008 and 2012 Olympics returned at least three positive results each. In all, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) suspended nine nations for a year with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Ukraine all sitting out the World Championships in California from November 28.


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The suspension was met with shock by Russia. "I don't see the good in this decision and I don't understand the point," Russian team coach Nikolaï Kolesnikov said. Oleg Pissarevski, the men's team coach, added: "They don't have the right to act like this. Why are they trying to kill the roots of weightlifting development in our country? "We have changed the executives of the federation. The officials who sinned are no longer there. We exist under the rules, we do 60 checks a week. Our guys have prepared themselves very seriously, and now they have tears in their eyes." Chinese weightlifters will also miss the 2018 Asian Games due to the doping clampdown.


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