IWF Upholds Ban - 9 Countries To Miss 2017 World Championships

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"In a statement published on September 30th, the International Weightlifting Federation has confirmed the national weightliftings bodies of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine will receive one-year bans from international competition.

While the IWF had previously announced bans for any countries found to have three or more anti-doping violations from 2008 and 2012 Olympic retests — which included the nine countries listed above — it was unclear exactly if and when those one-year bans would start. The September 30th announcement says the IWF’s Executive Board unanimously voted in support of the bans.


“IWF Executive Board has decided that National Federations (NFs)* confirmed to have produced 3 or more Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRV) in the combined re-analysis process of the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games shall be suspended for 1 year.”

According to their website’s statement, the decisions are scheduled to take effect in mid-October.

Though their statement doesn’t explicitly state it, bans starting in October would render athletes from the above countries ineligible to compete in the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships. That competition is scheduled to take place in November/December this year in Anaheim, California. "

https://barbend.com/weightlifting-bans-china-russia-kazakhstan/

http://www.iwf.net/2017/09/30/iwf-e...-have-produced-three-or-more-retesting-cases/
 

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