International Weightlifting Fed disqualifies Russian team from Olympics
International Weightlifting Federation has disqualified the Russian team from the Summer Olympic Games in Rio, the press service of the organization said on Friday, according to TASS agency.
The ban on the team's participation follows the numerous instances of encroachments on antidoping rules.
The press release said the reputation of weightlifting as a sports discipline had suffered severely many a time and at different levels from the Russian athletes' wrongdoings and that is why punishment was applied in order to keep the status of the sport intact," the source details.