Fiji will not be sending a team to this weekend's Oceania Weightlifting Championships in New Caledonia because of a clerical error.
The sport's governing body, Weightlifting Fiji, failed to submit whereabouts information to drug testers.
Under new rules, drug testers must know where athletes are on any given day.
With Levuka lifters boycotting the championships, Fiji had only planned to send four athletes to Noumea.
But Weightlifting Fiji President Atma Maharaj told Ben Robinson Drawbridge no Fijian athletes would be attending.
A local weightlifting competition at the high performance centre in Levuka, which was destroyed by Cyclone Winston in 2016 Photo: Supplied
