IWF provisionally suspends five Russian athletes

August 14, 2019 11:37 AM

IWF provisionally suspends five Russian athletes

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said today that Five Russian weightlifters, including a 2012 Olympic bronze medallist, have been provisionally suspended after doping tests on samples recovered from the Moscow lab.   Ruslan Albegov who took a London Games bronze in the plus 105 kilo category and won back-to-back world titles in the next two years, was suspended along with women's minus 63 kilo 2013 world champion Tima Turieva. Also provisionally banned were David Bedzhan...

Russian athletes not be able to march behind their flag at Winter Olympics closing ceremony

February 25, 2018 12:54 PM

Russian athletes not be able to march behind their flag at Winter Olympics closing ceremony

Russian athletes will not be able to march behind their flag at the Pyeongchang Winter Games closing ceremony today after the IOC voted unanimously to keep the country's ban for mass doping.  But the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said the suspension could be lifted later if no further positive drug tests come out of the Games after two Russians tested positive for doping in Pyeongchang. Russia was banned in December from taking part in the 2018 Olympics following revelations of ...