Olympics: The draw of gold brings tainted lifters back to Olympic battle
Eight weightlifters who previously served doping bans have won medals at Rio, while others have been sent home for failed tests.
Olympics: German weightlifting coach wants seven nations banned
Germany's weightlifting coach has called for seven countries, including Kazakhstan, to be banned from international competition/
Olympics: Aussie teen stars as Ledecky motors on
Australia's new teenage swimming sensation Kyle Chalmers won the blue riband Olympic 100m freestyle gold.
Boxing: Brook to 'shock the world' in Golovkin title bout
Welterweight world champion Kell Brook vowed he could overcome Kazakhstan's feared world middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin.
Olympics: Weightlifting's doping crackdown for Rio
Overshadowed by the Russian Olympic doping scandal, the sport of weightlifting has been waging its own battle against drug cheats.
Brook to face feared Kazakhstan's boxer Golovkin
Welterweight world champion Kell Brook to move up two weight divisions to challenge Kazakhstan's pound-for-pound sensation Gennady Golovkin.
Kazakhstan weightlifting team facing Rio ban over doping
Kazakhstan, Russia and Belarus are to be suspended for one year by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
Kazakh champion Ilyin among 10 new doping failures
Kazakhstan's double Olympic champion Ilya Ilyin and three other gold medalists banned for failing dope tests at the 2012 London Olympics
Tennis: Putintseva makes first Grand Slam quarter-final
Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva reached her first Grand Slam quarter-final at the French Open.