Hong Kong: India's weightlifters will be looking to build on their new-found clean status at the Asian Games in Incheon after bagging 12 medals at this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Indian weightlifting, dogged by rampant doping scandals in the past, appeared to turn a new leaf at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow when no positive tests were reported and they emerged as the top nation in the event.

If it was an improvement on four years earlier at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, where the tally was eight medals with two golds, it was light years ahead of where they were in 2006. Back then Indian lifting hit a nadir when a 12-month ban was imposed on the national federation after four athletes tested positive within a year, forcing them to miss the Doha Asiad completely.