The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) deprived Azerbaijan oftwo Olympic berths in the 2016 Rio Games, local media report.

A decision to punish the federations, involved in the recent doping scandals was passed during an IWF session in Tbilisi.

Azerbaijan has lost two berths as its athletes were repeatedly caught using doping during qualification tournaments for 2016 Olympic Games.

So far, 20 weightlifting cases have been found among the 55 positives in retesting of samples from all sports which the International Olympic Committee has reported, including 32 from Beijing and 23 from London. Four Olympic gold medalists from Kazakhstan and medalists from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus have already been provisionally suspended by the IWF.