Weightlifting officials fear their sport could be kicked out of the Olympics

The sport has featured rampant doping by many of its most successful nations.

Senior officials have admitted weightlifting's Olympic future is in jeopardy because of rampant doping by many of the sport's most successful nations.

Almost half of the 98 athletes caught in the International Olympic Committee's retesting of anti-doping samples from the Beijing and London Games have come from weightlifting, making a mockery of the results.