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Weightlifting: ‘Eastern Bloc’ cheats taking the sport down, says top official

By Brian Oliver RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Paul Coffa, one of weightlifting’s best-known coaches and administrators who has been involved in the sport for more than half a century, has blamed former Soviet Bloc countries for persistent cheating that has once more damaged the image of the sport at the Rio Olympics. Russia were banned from Rio for “bringing weightlifting into disrepute” and Bulgaria for multiple offences last year. Six 2012 champions were excluded from Rio because of doping, including four from Kazakhstan and one from Poland.

Out of the cave and onto Facebook – the life of a modern hermit

By Neil Hall and Angus Berwick MARKET RASEN, England (Reuters) – Like any good hermit Rachel Denton rises early in the morning to tend to her vegetable garden, feed her chickens, and pray. Unlike other hermits, such as a man discovered in 2013 living in a wood in the United States having spent 27 years without any human contact, Denton has embraced the Internet age. “The myth you most often face as a hermit is that you should have a beard and live in a cave, none of which is me,” she said, sat in her simple red-brick house near Market Rasen, a Lincolnshire village ringed by rolling green countryside.