A move to eliminate weightlifting from the...
A move to eliminate weightlifting from the Olympics was scrapped at an International Olympic Committee meeting at Vienna, Austria, where the vice president behind the move, Richard Pound of Canada, said the sport typified the problems doping can create in the Games.
Weightlifting produced half of the 10 athletes punished for drug use at the Seoul Olympics.
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