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CAREER OVER: Shailaja Pujari representing India at the 14th Asian Games in Pusan.

CAREER OVER: Shailaja Pujari representing India at the 14th Asian Games in Pusan.

After doping shame, weightlifting struggles with fine

The country's weightlifting body has been fined $500,000 after six lifters tested positive last year, a senior weightlifting official said on Saturday. "The International Weightlifting Federation has given us until the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi in October to pay the fine," newly elected Indian Weightlifting Federation president Birendra Prasad Baishya told Reuters.

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