(Reuters) - Egypt has been banned from participating in the weightlifting world championships for doping offences, state media said on Tuesday, and the Egyptian Olympic Committee fears the suspension could extend to the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
A number of Egyptian weightlifters were included in the entry list for the world championships, which begin in Thailand on Wednesday, but all of them were missing from the competition's start book released on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) website https://www.iwf.net/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2019/09/Start_Book_Pattaya_2019.pdf earlier on Tuesday.
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