Phil Andrews, the British-born chief executive of USA Weightlifting, prefers the second explanation because accepting the first would be conceding that weightlifting, once a premier Olympic sport, is now the Games’ dirtiest. We need to take more action.”This is not the first time weightlifting has found itself at the center of a doping controversy. As a result anabolic agents will make a huge difference in the sport of weightlifting. But when Bulgaria was banned from this summer’s Games, sports commentators there turned it into a joke, saying the country's doping team had been caught weightlifting. The Russian and Bulgarian teams were banned completely; Kazakhstan and Belarus are appealing similar one-year bans.

Source: Los Angeles Times August 09, 2016 02:36 UTC