Athens - A seventh weightlifter has tested positive to a banned drug at the Athens Olympics, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) said on Thursday.
The federation's president Tamas Ajan told a media conference the weightlifter was an Indian woman, later identified by her team as Sanamacha Chanu who finished fourth in the 53kg category.
Ajan, who did not identify the lifter, said she had tested positive to a banned diuretic used to lose body weight.
Ajan said the Indian Olympic Committee had been informed of the second Indian positive test.
Harish Sharma, deputy chef-de-mission of the Indian team, later confirmed the identity of the banned lifter as Chanu.
He said: "We were told this evening that Chanu had failed the test."
Chanu is the second lifter from India to have failed a drugs test in the lead-up to the Games after Pratima Kumari Na tested positive for steroids.
The IWF has named five others from male lifters Viktor Chislean of Moldova, Zoltan Kecskes of Hungary and women Sule Sahbaz of Turkey, Morocco's Wafa Ammouri and Myanmar's Nan Aye Khine, all to anabolic steroids.
Four of the weightlifters failed to show for their events, held last Sunday and on Wednesday, while 2003 World Championship bronze medallist Sahbaz will miss the 75kg division on Friday.
Nan Aye Khine had already been expelled from the games after testing positive for an anabolic steroid.
Ajan said he had warned the Indian Olympic Committee not to employ certain foreign coaches to train their weightlifters.
"Some of the coaches who are working abroad from a certain country wish to produce perfect top competitors and these coaches have to take the responsibility if a competitor is (tested) positive," Ajan said.
