2016 Olympic champion weightlifters Sopita Tanasuanand and Sukanya Srisurat are being touted for gold at the Asian Games, while the sport’s powerhouse nation ,China, is still serving a doping ban.

THAILAND’S national anthem was played at the Olympic Games for the first time in eight years yesterday after determined weightlifter Sopita Tanasan captured the first Rio Games gold and became the fourth women’s weightlifter from Thailand to win an Olympi