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Seven weeks after its athletes topped the medals table at the European Championships, the Bulgarian Weightlifting Federation (BFVT) is having its licence revoked.
Two of the 11 Bulgarian weightlifters who missed the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics after testing positive for doping received a life-long ban from the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF). The penalties were announced on September 11 2008. Georgi Markov and Alan Tsagaev were banned for life because this was their second positive doping test. The rest of the 11 athletes - Velichko Cholakov,