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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 5 — Concerns are growing within the Malaysian Weightlifting Federation (MWF) over possible penalties imposed by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) due to issues of doping. MWF president Datuk Ayub Rahmat told Bernama recently that there were three cases of banned...

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He said should IWF decide to impose a fine, it would be borne by the athlete or the state association. In 2019, IWF fined MWF US$25,600 following doping cases involving four national weightlifters and suspended Malaysia from participating in any IWF activities for a year from April 1, 2020, while Malaysian weightlifters were barred from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Ayub said that MWF took various preventive measures to prevent the recurrence of doping, including reminding athletes and working with ADAMAS to provide awareness programmes and conduct doping tests to ally IWF’s fears.

 

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