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More Olympic weightlifters test positive for doping

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Um, why are results being announced just close to Rio. This whole doping thing is becoming a farce judging how results and bannings are being announced a few days to the opening ceremony of the olympics. It is just not right at all,

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This whole doping thing is becoming a farce

actually "This whole Olympic thing has become a farce. I think it has about 20 years left at most.

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Do their medals get taken away and given to those below them not tainted?

What a long time to wait for a deserved medal and economic repercussions must be devastating.

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Um, why are results being announced just close to Rio.

Maybe the re-tests using the new techniques have only just finished

Also, they recently had to throw out all the tests done by the Russian national testing agency for being compromised, and re-test all those too

Do their medals get taken away and given to those below them not tainted?

Yes, but without the ceremony and the Wheaties box

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Weightlifters test positive for doping? Well, there's a shock! Weightlifting should be completely thrown out of the Olympics, it is a drug-tainted stain and has been for many decades. Nothing changes.

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