Five weightlifters banned after 2012 Olympic tests reanalysed

The International Weightlifting Federation announced in Paris on Monday that five weightlifters have been provisionally suspended after reanalysis of their urine samples provided during the 2012 London Olympics.  They include two Olympic champions, Ukrainian Oleksiy Torokhtiy and Uzbek  Ruslan Nurudinov. Oleksiy is 105kg gold medallist six years ago, and  Ruslan Nurudinov won the same category in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.  Only Torokhtiy stands to lose his title, as the samples retested wer...