Weighlifting

International Weightlifting Federation disclosed that 20 new suspect doping cases have come up from 2012 London Olympics and 2208 Beijing edition

Aleksey Lovchev, who won gold in the +105kg category at the world championships in Houston last month, tested positive for the banned growth hormone Ipamorelin.

The newly-built weighlifting auditorium inside the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium was on Sunday inaugurated by Sports Minister M S Gill but water logging and seepage at the venue once again exposed how ill-prepared the capital is to host the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games.

The IOA will this week set the ball rolling for elections to reconstitute the dope-tainted Indian Weighlifting Federation.

IWF has promised to take strict action against India, which has been banned twice in the past, for the six recent dope cases that came to light last month.

A decision on whether to ban the dope-tainted Indian Weightlifting Federation has been deferred till on Saturday by the sport's world governing body.

Dope-tainted Indian Weightlifting Federation's fate will be known on Friday after the sport's world governing body deliberates on whether to ban it or let it off with a fine.

Indian weightlifters' participation in the 2010 CWG in jeopardy, the sport's governing body meets on Wednesday to decide whether to ban the country for a spate of dope flunks last month.

The Indian Olympic Association on Tuesday said fresh elections will be held to reconstitute the Indian Weightlifting Federation, officials of which resigned en masse after six lifters flunked dope tests.

Of the seven Indian lifters who tested positive for doping, they appeared before a four-member committee on Sunday.

International Weightlifting Federation disclosed that 20 new suspect doping cases have come up from 2012 London Olympics and 2208 Beijing edition

Aleksey Lovchev, who won gold in the +105kg category at the world championships in Houston last month, tested positive for the banned growth hormone Ipamorelin.

The newly-built weighlifting auditorium inside the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium was on Sunday inaugurated by Sports Minister M S Gill but water logging and seepage at the venue once again exposed how ill-prepared the capital is to host the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games.

The IOA will this week set the ball rolling for elections to reconstitute the dope-tainted Indian Weighlifting Federation.

IWF has promised to take strict action against India, which has been banned twice in the past, for the six recent dope cases that came to light last month.

A decision on whether to ban the dope-tainted Indian Weightlifting Federation has been deferred till on Saturday by the sport's world governing body.

Dope-tainted Indian Weightlifting Federation's fate will be known on Friday after the sport's world governing body deliberates on whether to ban it or let it off with a fine.

Indian weightlifters' participation in the 2010 CWG in jeopardy, the sport's governing body meets on Wednesday to decide whether to ban the country for a spate of dope flunks last month.

The Indian Olympic Association on Tuesday said fresh elections will be held to reconstitute the Indian Weightlifting Federation, officials of which resigned en masse after six lifters flunked dope tests.

Of the seven Indian lifters who tested positive for doping, they appeared before a four-member committee on Sunday.