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kkkkRIO DE JANEIRO -- With weightlifting once again hit by a doping scandal, China won two Olympic gold medals in the sport on Tuesday.Deng Wei and Shi Zhiyong won their events hours after one of the top female lifters, Lin Tzu-Chi of Taiwan, was forced to withdraw from the competition because of an abnormal doping test.Deng won the womens 63-kilogram category, setting a world record total of 262 kilograms. The previous record holder was Lin.Because this is my first Olympic Games, I was quite nervous, Deng said. But I set my goal to break the world record before coming to Rio, so this is actually within my expectations.Later in the day, Shi continued Chinas success by winning the mens 69kg class.In addition to Lins withdrawal, the International Olympic Committee disqualified two lifters from past Olympics for positive retests of samples from the 2008 and 2012 Games. One is from Turkey and the other from Armenia, but neither won a medal.That followed months of scandals in the sport which depleted the field for the womens 63kg. Defending champion Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan missed the Olympics after failing a drug test, while two of the top four from last years world championships were also out for doping-related reasons.Deng took advantage, hoisting 147 kilograms in the clean and jerk and 115 in the snatch for her world-record total of 262. Dengs clean and jerk lift also broke her own world record by 1 kilo.Choe Hyo Sim of North Korea took silver and Karina Goricheva of Kazakhstan earned bronze.I am going to try harder to win gold next time, Choe said. I am not happy with the result. I could have tried much harder.Because of the doping situation in the sport, fourth-place finisher Mercedes Isabel Perez of Colombia said she might yet win a medal.We have to wait for the doping tests, Perez said, chuckling. Who knows? Being fourth is the best because if something happens, Ill just climb on that podium.Shi won the other gold for China by lifting 162 kilos in the snatch and 190 in the clean and jerk for a total of 352.Shi, who shares his name with another Olympic champion Chinese weightlifter, said the older Shi Zhiyong pushed him on to victory.You must deserve this name, respect this name, Shi said he was told. That encouraged me.Daniyar Ismayilov of Turkey, who used to represent Turkmenistan, won silver and said he had been inspired by mass protests which helped to prevent a military coup in his country last month.I felt they were fighting more than me, he said of the protesters. It really motivated me more.Izzat Artykov of Kyrgyzstan won bronze.Weightlifting has been dogged by steroid use for more than 50 years, but better testing techniques have meant bans for more star athletes.Two of the sports superpowers, Russia and Bulgaria, were kicked out of weightlifting at the Rio de Janeiro Games after repeated doping cases. The International Weightlifting Federation had threatened to ban Kazakhstan and Belarus, too, but failed because various doping cases were not processed in time for the Olympics.Results from the past are also in danger because of advances in testing.Besides Manezas gold, Kazakhstan stands to lose four more Olympic victories after failing retests of samples from Beijing and London, including two by Ilya Ilyin, one of the sports biggest stars.Nine Russians from the 2008 and 2012 Games have also failed retesting, all for oral turinabol, a relic of the East German state doping program of the Cold War era.---Associated Press writer Luis Henao contributed to this report.Lonzo Ball Jersey . Scott Kazmir allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, Michael Brantley hit a two-run homer in a three-run first inning and the Indians maintained their hold on an AL wild-card spot with a 4-1 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night. Zion Williamson Pelicans Jersey . 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Even though Manning finished second in the Heisman balloting to?Michigans Charles Woodson?in 1997, the Maxwell Football Club presented its Maxwell Award to Manning for the College Player of the Year that season. If you ask Tennessee fans, Manning was the biggest Heisman snub of all time.Mannings personal 1997 trophy case also includes the Davey OBrien Award, the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award and SEC Player of the Year. He was?named a consensus All-American. He set the SEC record with 3,789 passing yards in that senior season, leading Tennessee to the conference?championship and an Orange Bowl appearance. Mannings college career ultimately ended in disappointment, with No. 3 Tennessee losing to No. 2?Nebraska 42-17. The Vols finished 11-2 with a No. 7 ranking in the final AP poll.Tennessee and Manning would both bounce back in big ways. 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