Huge Drug Bust at Weightlifting World Championships

[MountTiede]

17 lifters including Alexi Lovchev who broke the world super heavyweight class C&J WR, failed drug tests at the Houston world championships.

Lovchev has been suspended after testing positive for a banned substance - Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko claimed the banned substance, the growth hormone ipamorelin, was a medicine Lovchev had been cleared to use to treat a lateral ligament rupture.

The weightlifting federation said Lovchev's compatriots Aleksei Kosov, Olga Zubova, and Olga Afanaseva also failed drug tests - and may take away Russia’s Rio Olympic weightlifting spots.

 

[chuckmicD]

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a russian, you say? weightlifting, you say?

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