Penalty in the post

The International Building Federation of Athletics removed the Russian team in full force from participation in the World Cup, which will be held from November 28 to December 5 in the United States. This was reported on the official website of IWF.

The Russian heavy athletics Federation has been suspended for a year. The same punishment of the heavy athletics Federation of Kazakhstan, China, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Ukraine and Moldova.

The IWF emphasizes that such a step took such a step in the framework of anti -doping reforms to protect the "pure" athletes. The weightlifters of all these countries had at least three positive results when rechewing doping tests from the Olympiads in Beijing 2008 and London-2012.

On July 27 last year, IWF reported that the four Russian weightlifters performing at the Olympiad in London were convicted of doping . It was about Natalia Zabolotnaya, Svetlana Tsarukaeva, Andrei Demanov and Alexander Ivanov. Forbidden drugs were discovered during the second wave of processing samples of participants in the 2008 and 2012 Olympiads. Two of the Russians, Zabolotnaya and Ivanov, who were convicted of using doping - received silver medals at the games of 2012.

Two days later, IWF suspended the entire composition of the Russian team from participating in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro .

In November last year, Russian weightlifters Khadzhimurat Akkaev and Dmitry Lapikov were deprived of the Beijing Olympiad medals . In their doping samples found a steroid Turinabol.