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Revealed: Why Russian athletes are able to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics - but why they WON'T feature on the medal table or bear their country's colours or flag
The Olympic committee originally banned all ... Despite reports that nine out of Russia ten weightlifters initially accepted the invitation, whilst one of the Judo athletes has originally accepted ...
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Russia’s renowned Olympic weightlifting champ Viktor Kurentsov passes away at 80
MOSCOW, April 8. /TASS/. Russia’s Olympic Champion in weightlifting Viktor Kurentsov died on Thursday at the age of 80. "Viktor Kurentsov has passed away," Andrei Ivanov, head of the Odintsovo ...
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How Russians will be at Olympics but not in medal table
the Russian Olympic Committee sent 335 athletes and Belarus sent 101. While Russia has said it was not planning to boycott the Games, its weightlifting federation has cited the "unsportsmanlike ...
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International Weightlifting Federation lifts temporary suspensions of two Russian athletes
Ruslan Albegov, the 2012 Olympics bronze medalist and two-time ... to obtain the lift of provisional suspensions imposed on Russian weightlifters Ruslan Albegov and Oleg Chen, accused of anti ...
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Report: Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan face weightlifting ban for doping
The IWF already banned Russia and Bulgaria from ... into question the seven combined weightlifting medals won by Kazakhstan and Belarus at the 2016 Olympics. The 2016 Olympic Games run from ...