Another seven Russian weightlifters have been provisionally suspended for doping violations, joining five compatriots already banned from the sport earlier this week. The International Weightlifting Federation said on Friday the seven had been charged based on data from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory.
The announcement come days after the IWF said five other Russian weightlifters had been provisionally suspended.The latest batch include Dmitry Lapikov and Nadezhda Evstyukhina, who had Olympic medals from the 2008 Beijing Games stripped for doping.
