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China faces weightlifting ban over doping after IOC retests

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2017-01-13 13:32:22CGTN Li Yan ECNS App Download

Three Chinese athletes have been stripped of Olympic gold medals won in Beijing 2008, after the IOC sanctioned eight athletes for doping after a retest of samples from previous competitions.

Cao Lei, Chen Xiexia and Liu Chunhong will return their medals, with China facing a ban under the International Weightlifting Federation’s ruling that any nation with three or more positive doping tests would be barred from competition for at least one year.

  

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