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Coach of tainted Thai weightlifting team suspended

Coach of tainted Thai weightlifting team suspended

World body plans further investigation into alleged doping at 2018 championships

Rattikan Gulnoi, shown here competing in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, was secretly recorded in a German documentary that exposed doping in Thai weightlifting. (Bangkok Post File Photo)

The coach of the Thailand women’s weightlifting team that lost three world titles in a doping scandal in 2018 has been charged with a doping offence and provisionally suspended.

The suspension of Liu Ning was announced in a brief statement on the website of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). “IWF will not make any further comments on the case until it is closed,” it said.

The veteran Chinese coach has been…

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