Russia could increase three weightlifting gold awards stripped from other countries' rivals due to doping positives coming to back similarly as two Olympics, yet could likewise lose share places at the Rio Diversions in light of its own group's transgressions.
The representing Global Weightlifting League meets in Tibilisi this week to handle challenges emerging from the utilization of new innovation in exploring pee and blood tests taken at past competitions.
The debate reflect a doping embarrassment shaking world games that has prompted a Rio boycott for Russian competitors.
Monday was the due date for the IWF to tell countries what number of spots they would have at the Rio Amusements in August.
"We have reached all alliances and given them their Olympic amounts, however they are liable to legitimate techniques and different choices," said Attila Adamfi, chief general of the IWF.
Countries with four or more lifters testing positive inside the two-year Olympic capability period can have one or more group spots detracted from them.
Bulgaria has as of now been banned from Rio for having 11 lifters test positive for anabolic steroids a year ago, and Romania and Uzbekistan have lost one place each.
The most well known weightlifter on the planet, Ilya Ilyin from Kazakhstan, stands to lose both his Olympic gold decorations from 2008 and 2012, and the opportunity to win a third, which he was relied upon to do this mid year.
Ilyin tried positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol when tests from London 2012 were retested.
On Monday it was reported that he additionally tried positive for stanozolol in 2008, again on reanalysis did by the Global Olympic Advisory group.
Ilyin, a numerous world record holder who has almost 400,000 fans on online networking, had ascribed his numerous triumphs somewhat to his eating routine, first of stallion meat then, after 2012, to his recently received vegetarianism.
Others named on Monday as 2008 positives included three alrady banned for other doping encroachments. Nurcan Taylan, the 2004 Olympic champion at 48kg, tried positive in 2011 and was banned for a long time.
Russia's Marina Shainova, a silver medallist at 58kg in Beijing, was suspended for a long time in 2013, and Intigam Zairov of Azerbaijan is banned until 2023 after twice testing positive, in 2013 and 2015.
Three different Kazakhs, all ladies, were temporarily suspended a week ago subsequent to testing positive in 2012.
Kazakhstan was likewise among the rundown of wrongdoers at the 2015 Big showdowns, where almost 50% of contenders were tried and 24 returned positives.
The most prominent wrongdoer was Russia's Aleksey Lovchev, who had softened two world records up winning the men's super-heavyweight title (+105kg).
He has been suspended for a long time.
One of the confusing components is whether to respect positives declared in the previous week, however going back four or eight years, as 2016 disappointments.
In the event that that happened, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Belarus would have most to lose.
The uplifting news for Russia is that three of their lifters who took silver in London are relied upon now to be granted the gold stripped from opponents: Aleksandr Ivanov (men 94kg), Svetlana Tsarukayeva (ladies 63kg) and Natalya Zabolotnaya (ladies 75kg).
The man who stands to take Ilyin's 2008 title is Poland's Szymon Kolecki, who was himself banned from the 2004 Diversions for a doping encroachment.
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