Four lifting champions fail doping retests

BUDAPEST: Four Olympic weightlifting gold medallists from Kazakhstan have been provisionally suspended after their doping samples were positive in retests from the

BUDAPEST: Four Olympic weightlifting gold medallists from Kazakhstan have been provisionally suspended after their doping samples were positive in retests from the 2012 London Games. The four champions were among 10 athletes from five former Soviet countries whose samples revealed banned substances, the International Weightlifting Federation said late Wednesday. The Kazakhs were men’s 94-kg champion Ilya Ilyin, and women’s gold medallists Zulfiya Chinshanlo (53kg), Maiya Maneza (63kg) and Svetlana Podobedova (75kg). If all four are disqualified, Kazakhstan would drop from 12th to 23rd in the 2012 medal standings.

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