The World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) website has been the subject of daily hacking attempts for almost three weeks, largely from Russia, the organisation’s director general Olivier Niggli has claimed.

During the Olympics, which concluded with the Closing Ceremony on August 21, the International Weightlifting

Cuban discus thrower Yarelys Barrios has been stripped of her Beijing 2008 silver medal for retrospectively failing a drugs test at the Games following re-analysis of samples conducted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Games last month.Men’s 69 kilograms bronze medallist Tigran Martirosyan of Armenia has lost his Olympic weightlifting

Russian weightlifter Marina Shainova has been ordered to return her Beijing 2008 silver medal after she was among a further six athletes named for failing drugs tests following re-analysis of samples from the Games by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

Nadezda Evstyukhina, who finished third in the women’s 75kg event, also stand to lose their respective weightlifting

Beijing 2008, is also set to be stripped of her medal ©Getty ImagesThe news comes after a trio of Chinese weightlifting

medallist Chen Xiexia are all set to lose their Olympic gold medals.China are facing a one-year ban from weightlifting

New Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike has pledged to ensure the amount of money spent on the Japanese capital’s hosting of the 2020 Olympic and Paralympics does not continue to balloon, vowing to hold a “cost-efficient” Games in four years’ time.

The Japanese Weightlifting Federation President, who became the first female to take up the Governor's

China are facing a one-year ban from weightlifting after the sport’s world governing body confirmed that

Xiexia, the 48kg gold medallist.Liu also failed for stimulant sibutramine.In June, the International Weightlifting

but is set to lose her medal ©Getty ImagesChina’s five golds and two silvers saw the nation top the weightlifting

under earlier announcements.Russia were subsequently banned from Rio anyway as the "integrity of the weightlifting

will also have more than three retesting failures if all outstanding cases are confirmed.As many as 16 weightlifting

Russian athletes who were banned from competing at Rio 2016 will be given bonuses by the Foundation for the Support of Russian Olympians because they would have made a "significant contribution" to the nation's medal count had they been allowed to represent the country at the Games, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced today.

also rewarded Russian medallists from Rio 2016 with brand-new BMWs ©Getty ImagesThe entire Russian weightlifting

Kazakhstan’s weightlifters have overtaken Russia in the Olympic doping league of shame. 

Committee, has promised there will be a “zero tolerance” attitude in future.When the International Weightlifting

 It also takes the total number of weightlifting positives from Kazakhstan, since the National Olympic

 In the same month it was announced that Kazakhstan will lose five weightlifting gold medals from

implicated in the Beijing 2008 re-tests ©Getty ImagesOne of the best-known coaches and administrators in weightlifting

The black market works well, there is big money in it".Asked if other weightlifting teams can expect

The Olympic Flag has today arrived in 2020 Games host city Tokyo after travelling more than 18,000 kilometres from Rio de Janeiro.

Keisuke Ushiro waves a Japanese Olympic Committee flag ©Tokyo 2020Koike, President of the Japanese Weightlifting

Chinese weightlifters are set to be stripped of their Beijing 2008 gold medals after the International Weightlifting

Georgia’s Vladimir Khinchegashvili went one better than his silver medal at London 2012 by beating Japan’s Rei Higuchi in the final of the men’s 57 kilograms freestyle wrestling competition at Carioca Arena 2 in Rio de Janeiro.

secured his country's second gold medal of the Games after Lasha Talakhadze's win in the men's over 105kg weightlifting

Moldova's only Olympic medallist, canoeist Serghei Tarnovschi, faces losing his bronze medal after it was revealed he had failed a drugs test.

a result.It is now the responsibility of the International Olympic Committee and the International Weightlifting

Kyrgyzstan weightlifter Izzat Artykov has become the first athlete to be stripped of a Rio 2016 Olympic medal for doping after a positive test for strychnine.

announced.It is now the responsibility of the International Olympic Committee and the International Weightlifting

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Jason Kenny. each claimed cycling gold medals today ©Getty ImagesLasha Talakhadze claimed the final weightlifting

became the first, and only, Russian to compete at Rio 2016 ©Getty ImagesThere was furious scenes in the weightlifting

Weightlifting competition at Rio 2016 ended here in controversial fashion tonight as Georgia's Lasha

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamas Ajan has given a "guarantee" that all lifters

Russia was subsequently banned from Rio anyway as the "integrity of the weightlifting sport

Belarus claimed a silver medal in the men's under 94kg division in Rio ©Getty ImagesFour Kazakhstan weightlifting

“We wish weightlifting to be a clean sport and there’s only one way - we have to ban all the countries