Trio of fellow Russians also failed tests
The Associated Press Posted: Dec 24, 2015 11:19 PM ET Last Updated: Dec 24, 2015 11:19 PM ET
World champion weightlifter Aleksei Lovchev has been provisionally suspended after failing a drug test, the International Weightlifting Federation said Thursday.
The Russian tested positive for a banned substance after last month's world championships in Houston, where he broke the clean-and-jerk and total world records on his way to the overall title in the 105 kilogram-plus category.
Russia's sports minister Vitaly Mutko claimed the banned substance, the growth hormone ipamorelin, was in a medicine he had been cleared to use.
The IWF said Lovchev's compatriots Aleksei Kosov, Olga Zubova and Olga Afanaseva also failed tests.
Three other medallists, South Korea's Kim Kwang-song and Kazakhstan's Almas Uteshov and Zhassulan Kyrdyrbayev, were among 24 adverse findings from the competition, the IWF reported.
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