The Bulgarian weightlifting team have been banned from next year's Rio Olympics due to a spate of doping offences.
The International Weightlifting Federation made the ruling after a deluge of positive tests to steroids from the Bulgarians.
In March, eight men and three women from the Bulgaria team were found to have used the anabolic steroid stanozolol during training.
Bulgaria then withdrew their team from the European Championships, and the 11 athletes were suspended from the world championships which start on Friday in Houston.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Bulgaria sent two weightlifters who both placed fifth.
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The IWF says it also took one Olympic entry place from Romania because of "multiple positive cases" of doping.
