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Russia says weightlifting ban is a 'psychotic episode'

Last updated on: June 23, 2016 13:37 IST
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IMAGE: Timur Naniev of Russia reacts to a lift in the men's 105kg weight class . Photograph: Scott Halleran/Getty Images.

Russian Sport Minister Vitaly Mutko said a decision by the International Weightlifting Federation to ban Russia weightlifters from the Rio Olympics was like "a psychotic episode", R-Sport news agency reported on Thursday.

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"It is a psychotic episode, as if it is dictated, accompanied by a departure from the principals and norms," R-Sport quoted Mutko as saying. "How can you punish a team which should go to the Olympic Games in 2016 for violations from 2008 or 2012? I don't know."

The Court of Arbitration for Sport will hear appeals against doping bans imposed on Russian weightlifters by the International Weightlifting Federation on July 6, R-Sport agency cited Russian weightlifting champion Alexei Lovchev.

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