• Claims include girls aged 13 being encouraged to take drugs• German investigators make new allegations against IWF
The International Olympic Committee has expressed its concerns over “very serious and worrying” new allegations of doping and corruption in international weightlifting – which include claims that girl competitors as young as 13 have been encouraged to take banned drugs.
The IOC’s response follows a series of revelations on German TV, including that nearly half of the 450 world and Olympic weightlifting medallists between 2008 and 2018 did not undergo a single out-of-competition test in the year they stood on the podium.