Doping costs Thai, Malaysian weightlifters Tokyo 2020
After multiple doping offences weightlifters from Thailand and Malaysia have been barred from participating in the Tokyo Olympics. – EPA file pic, April 5, 2020.
THAILAND and Malaysia have been banned from sending weightlifters to the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo because of multiple doping offences, the Independent Member Federations Sanctions Panel announced yesterday. The Thai Amateur Weightlifting Association and the Malaysian Weightlifting Federation have also been suspended as members of the International Weightlifting Federation for three years and one year.
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