Azeri weightlifters banned from Rio OlympicsJune 23, 2016 - 14:51 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) deprived Azerbaijan oftwo Olympic berths in the 2016 Rio Games, local media report. A decision to punish the federations, involved in the recent doping scandals was passed during an IWF session in Tbilisi. Azerbaijan has lost two berths as its athletes were repeatedly caught using doping during qualification tournaments for 2016 Olympic Games. So far, 20 weightlifting cases have been found among the 55 positives in retesting of samples from all sports which the International Olympic Committee has reported, including 32 from Beijing and 23 from London. Four Olympic gold medalists from Kazakhstan and medalists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have already been provisionally suspended by the IWF. Top stories Armenian gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist Artur Davtyan has reached the finals of the World Cup. Gor Manvelyan has denied reports alleging that he has expressed a desire to one day play for the French national team. Roma midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan is not considering FC Spartak Moscow as his next haven, according to fresh reports. 10 Armenian lifters will compete in the 2021 World Championships scheduled to be held from 7 to 17 December in Tashkent. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |