Romania cannot participate in the weightlifting event at the Tokyo Olympics after the country’s governing body (FRH) was given a one-year ban by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for past doping cases on Thursday.
The ban was issued for five anti-doping violations made by Romanian athletes in 2012.
Those included Romania’s team of four – Florin Croitoru, Gabriel Sincraian, Razvan Martin and Roxana Cocos – that was disqualified from the London 2012 Olympics after various banned substances were found in re-testing of their samples.
Sincraian also lost a medal from the Rio 2016 Olympics for another failed drug test.
“The International Testing Agency (ITA) conf…
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