The teams with between three and 10 positives in the retesting of samples from Beijing 2008 and London 2012 won’t be allowed to take part in international tournaments.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) made this decision and introduced it to the International Weightlifting Federation. The report will be put to an extraordinary meeting of IWF in Bucharest on September 30 and October 1.
Mediamax Sport talked with Secretary General of Armenian Weightlifting Federation, head coach of the team Pashik Alaverdyan on this topic.
“Our Federation didn’t receive any report either from CAS or IWF. Our team continues preparing for the World Championships,” Alaverdyan said.
Four Armenian weightlifters tested positive for doping in Beijing and London Olympics. Bronze medalist Tigran Martirosyan and Hripsime Khurshudyan were stripped off their 2008 Olympic medals. Bronze winner Khurshudyan and Norayr Vardanyan were among the athletes stripped off the 2012 medals as well.
Other countries that might get banned from this year’s championships are Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Ukraine, and Moldova.