Exclusive - Teenage doping scandal could lead to Egypt ban


LONDON/CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt faces the possibility of being banned from weightlifting for up to two years by the sport's governing body after five teenagers, including two girls aged 14, tested positive for steroids -- a charge the head of the country's weightlifting federation has rejected as "a conspiracy".

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) confirmed that the five, and two 20-year-olds, tested positive at the African Youth and Junior Championships in Cairo last December.

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