 WADA said that the data of 43 athletes had been handed over out of a target pool of 298 athletes.The first sporting federation to suspend athletes from the data received was the International Weightlifting Federation who suspended 12 Russian weightlifters including Olympic, World and European medalists.On 21 September, it was widely reported that some of the data retrieved from the Moscow laboratory may have been manipulated and tampered with before it was retrieved by the World Anti-Doping Agency.