21.   Weightlifting is the only Olympic sport that bans drug offenders for life for a first offence.

22.   Usually, however, such convictions carry little more than a token fine for a first offence.

23.   It said the wording of the law would make clear that even a first offence would be punished.

24.   Perri faces a three-month ban for a first doping offence, the federation said.

25.   The IOC doping protocol calls for a maximum two-year ban on a first offence.

26.   The penalties under the law range between two and five years in jail, but the sentence could be suspended given that it is a first offence for Berlusconi.