A woman weightlifter from Myanmar and an Indian female lifter, both of whom failed out of competition drugs tests, had been suspended by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), bringing the total suspended in the power sport to seven, IWF President Tamas Ajan said Thursday.

Ajan said the strongwoman from Myanmar, competing in the 48kg category, and the Indian lifter, whose name and weight category was up to the International Olympic Committee to disclose, had tested positive to anabolic steroids and diuretics respectively.

"Weightlifting has to survive the present situation but we have to do everything to have a clean weightlifting sport," Ajan told reporters at a news conference at Nikaia Olympic Weightlifting Hall in Athens.

Ajan said the IWF has taken measure in its combat on drugs, carrying out more than one thousand tests in different parts of the world from the start of this year until July 30.

"The fight against drugs is not just lip service," Ajan said. "The five athletes suspended (earlier Thursday) were caught because of IWF controls."

Earlier on Thursday, the IWF suspended five weight lifters for failing drug tests in out of competition at the Athens Games, namely Waft Amomouri of Morocco, Viktor Chislean of Moldova, Zoltan Kecskes of Hungary, Kumari Pratima Na of India and Sule Sahbaz of Turkey.

Ajan said the IWF was studying very carefully ways to make their fight against drugs "much more effective."

"Weightlifting is an important sport and we have a 100-year history at the Olympic Games," Ajan said. "We will continue our strong fight against drugs."

Source: Xinhua