Thanks to the insane number of positive doping results in weightlifting from the 2008 and 2012 Olympic retests, the IOC has put immense pressure on the IWF to fix their sport and retool the culture leading into the 2020 Olympics.

Part of this pressure was to remove more than a quarter of the allocated spots for weightlifters at the Olympics and now, even more pressure to change the weight classes and Olympic qualifying procedures.

According to a report from Inside The Games, the IOC has made it clear to the IWF that the number of positive tests from 2008 and 2012 were unacceptable and that massive changes will be necessary to ensure weightlifting remains an Olympic sport.

Part of those changes will be to the divisions in which athletes compete in. The IOC has already announced that there will be less divisions in weightlifting at the Olympics in 2020, so IWF has to make a tough decision to shuffle the weight classes or remove weight classes.

Specifically, the men's 94kg division has a target on its back because of how many positive tests came out of that competition in 2008 and 2012. 

There's also talk of changing the Olympic qualifying process from nation based to individual. 

There is a precedent for changing the divisions in weightlifting. Just last year, the IWF added a new women's division in order to create equality between men's and women's competition.

While nothing has been set in stone yet, more news is likely to follow as we get closer to the 2017 IWF World Championships and the Executive Board meeting there.