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Russia says weightlifting ban is a 'psychotic episode' on someone's orders - R-Sport

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Sport Minister Vitaly Mutko said a decision by the International Weightlifting Federation to ban Russia weightlifters from the Rio Olympics was like "a psychotic episode", R-Sport news agency reported on Thursday.

Russia says weightlifting ban is a 'psychotic episode' on someone's orders  - R-Sport
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"It is a psychotic episode, as if it is dictated, accompanied by a departure from the principals and norms," R-Sport quoted Mutko as saying. "How can you punish a team which should go to the Olympic Games in 2016 for violations from 2008 or 2012? I don't know."

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(Reporting by Jack Stubbs; Editing by Maria Tsvetkova)


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