Olympics-Weightlifting-Happy to see you, lifters tell anti-doping testers

For years Olympic weightlifters were not happy to see drugs testers arriving for sample collections, and were quick to complain about their arrival times, the amount of blood taken or the frequency of testing.

"Yesterday I was happy to see the anti-doping people come over to see me. There were eight of us out of a group of 10 athletes who were tested," said Canadian women's 64kg category gold medallist Maude Charron, speaking on Wednesday. The scandals have led to the departure of Hungarian Tamas Ajan, the longtime president of the federation, who was charged with doping offences in June after a probe by the International Testing Agency .

The International Olympic Committee has repeatedly warned weightlifting it has to reform or risk missing out on the Paris Olympics and subsequent Olympics.Such a decision would instantly be disastrous for the sport's finances and its international structure and exposure, as it depends on picking up a share of revenue from the Olympics every four years.

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