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Home » News » Update on Olympic Quotas due to Doping Violations

Update on Olympic Quotas due to Doping Violations

May 31, 2019 By Gregor Winter

As you have read in the ATG Guide to Olympic Qualification:

Countries whose athletes have consistently been popped will lose spots. Or, framed another way, all countries (NOC/MF) start with two spots (one man, one woman) and countries with better WADA records earn more spots (subject to the IWF Anti-Doping policy), up to the eight total possible lifters.

The IWF released (see PDF here) the updated Olympic quotas for Tokyo 2020 with the current doping cases (some are still being processed):

Additional Reading: Read about the re-test positives from past Olympics.

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Comments

  1. grobpote says

    May 31, 2019 at 22:18

    Geez, it’s gonna be a weak olympics again.

  2. rapaces says

    June 1, 2019 at 08:05

    Free medals for China, et free podiums for weak countries

  3. Jerker Karlsson says

    June 3, 2019 at 08:27

    Bittersweet I would say. Lots of great lifters with medal-winning potential will not get the chance to compete. On the other hand, I would say it’s good that doping violations actually lead to ramifications.

  4. RPR says

    August 4, 2019 at 16:51

    Like China is that clean…Please!!

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