The IWF are continuing their process to deal with doping failures submitted by Ilia Ilyin and dozens of other medal winners ©Getty Images
Weightlifting's world governing body will take no action regarding the suspension of National Federations who have violated anti-doping rules until proceedings have been completed by both the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
An International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) rule change introduced in June stipulated that any country registering three positives following the retest of Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic samples would be handed a 12 month ban from competitions.
Only nine of the 47 failures to have been published have been formally confirmed by the IOC, however, with it still not clear when more will emerge.
Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine are all facing the prospect of a ban subject to this IOC confirmation.
None of them have yet had a third case confirmed, however.
As well as this delay, three countries have also filed appeals to CAS about the new suspension rule.
Names of these three countries have not been confirmed but, considering the complaints were submitted in June when only three countries would have been implicated, it can be presumed they are Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia.
Beijing 2008 silver medallist Marina Shainova is one of many Russians implicated ©Getty Images
Beijing 2008 silver medallist Marina Shainova is one of many Russians implicated ©Getty Images
Russian lifters were unsuccessful in appealing a separate suspension introduced for damaging the "integrity" of the sport which saw them banned from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro last month. 
insidethegames has not yet received a response from CAS about the status of the three cases, so it is not clear if rulings are likely to happen before the IOC process is finalised.
Canada’s IWF Women's Commission chair Moira Lassen has told insidethegames that the wait is "frustrating" as wider discontent continues to brew within the weightlifting community.
IWF director general Attila Adamfi refused to blame the IOC for delays but admitted that they had not been told a timeline, or the names and nationalities of those who have been tested.
He is keen to point out how the organisation are being "fully transparent" about the process.
A diagram showing IWF processes for dealing with the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 retests ©IWF
A diagram showing IWF processes for dealing with the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 retests ©IWF
All cases have been published on the IWF website, along with their progress, while a chart has also been detailed outlining the distinctive procedures they are following for both the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 processes.
More information on this is available in the anti-doping re-analysis section of the IWF website here.
Weightlifting has been by far the worst hit sport so far from the retesting process, which analyses doping samples using up-to-date methods.
Eight cases from Beijing 2008 and one from London 2012 have been formally confirmed.
If all those outstanding are finalised, athletes who originally finished as low as ninth could be upgraded to medal positions.
Of those still outstanding, arguably the most high-profile lifter to have been implicated is Kazakhstan's double under-94 kilograms gold medal winner Ilya Illyn.
"The result management of the reanalysis of the samples of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008 and London 2012 is still ongoing and the IOC announces the sanctions when each disciplinary procedure is completed," the IOC said.
"Please note that the IOC can only issue sanctions in the framework of the Olympic Games. 
"Outside Games-time this is the responsibility of International Federations."
List of weightlifters announced by IWF who have been implicated in the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Olympic retests:
Date announcedNameCountryGamesEventPositionSubstance
15.06.2016Apti AukhadovRussiaLondon 2012Men’s 85kgSecondDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Drostanolone
15.06.2016Boyanka KostovaAzerbaijanLondon 2012Women’s 58kgFourthDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
15.06.2016Svetlana PodobedovaKazakhstanLondon 2012Women’s 75kgFirstStanozolol
15.06.2016Dzina SazanavetsBelarusLondon 2012Women’s 69kgFourthDrostanolone, Stanozolol
15.06.2016Maryna ShkermankovaBelarusLondon 2012Women’s 69kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
15.06.2016Yuliya KalinaUkraineLondon 2012Women’s 58kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
15.06.2016Yauheni ZharnasekBelarusLondon 2012Men’s over 105kgNinthDehydrochlormethytestosterone, Stanozolol, Oxandrolone
15.06.2016Maiya ManezaKazakhstanLondon 2012Women’s 63kgFirstStanozolol
15.06.2016Ilya IlyinKazakhstanLondon 2012Men’s 94kgFirstDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
15.06.2016Zulfiya ChinshanloKazakhstanLondon 2012Women’s 53kgFirstOxandrolone, Stanozolol
18.06.2016Hripsime KhurshudyanArmeniaBeijing 2008Women’s 75kg11thStanozolol
18.06.2016Alexandru DudogloMoldovaBeijing 2008Men’s 69kgNinthStanozolol
18.06.2016Nadezda EvstyukhinaRussiaBeijing 2008Women’s 75kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone metabolites
18.06.2016Nurcan TaylanTurkeyBeijing 2008Women’s 48kgDNFStanozolol
18.06.2016Marina ShainovaRussiaBeijing 2008Women’s 58kgSecondDehydrochlormethyltestosterone metabolites and stanozolol metabolites
18.06.2016Intigam ZairovAzerbaijanBeijing 2008Men’s 85kgNinthDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
18.06.2016Ilya IlyinKazakhstanBeijing 2008Men’s 94kgFirstStanozolol
07.07.2016Tigran MartirosyanArmeniaBeijing 2008Men’s 69kgThirdStanozolol, Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone
07.07.2016Sardar HasanovAzerbaijanBeijing 2008Men’s 62kgDNFDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
07.07.2016Sibel OzkanTurkeyBeijing 2008Women’s 48kgSecondStanozolol
27.07.2016Intigam ZairovAzerbaijanLondon 2012Men’s 94kgSixthDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
27.07.2016Nataliya ZabolotnayaRussiaLondon 2012Women’s 75kgSecondDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
27.07.2016Rauli TsirekidzeGeorgiaLondon 2012Men’s 85kgNinthDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
27.07.2016Almas UteshovKazakhstanLondon 2012Men’s 94kgSeventhDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
27.07.2016Svetlana TzarukaevaRussiaLondon 2012Women’s 63kgSecondDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
27.07.2016Sibel SimsekTurkeyLondon 2012Women’s 63kgFourthDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
27.07.2016Iryna KuleshaBelarusLondon 2012Women’s 75kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
27.07.2016Hripsime KhurshudyanArmeniaLondon 2012Women’s over 75kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
27.07.2016Alexandr IvanovRussiaLondon 2012Men’s 94kgSecondDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Tamoxifen
27.07.2016Cristina IovuMoldovaLondon 2012Women’s 53kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
27.07.2016Andrey DemanovRussiaLondon 2012Men’s 94kgFourthDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
24.08.2016Nizami PashayevAzerbaijanBeijing 2008Men’s 94kgFifthDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Oxandrolone, Stanozolol
24.08.2016Iryna KuleshaBelarusBeijing 2008Women’s 75kgFourthDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
24.08.2016Nastassia NovikavaBelarusBeijing 2008Women’s 53kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
24.08.2016Andrei RybakouBelarusBeijing 2008Men’s 83kgSecondDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Stanozolol
24.08.2016Cao LeiChinaBeijing 2008Women’s 75kgFirstGHRP-2
24.08.2016Chen XiexiaChinaBeijing 2008Women’s 48kgFirstGHRP-2
24.08.2016Liu Chun HongChinaBeijing 2008Women’s 69kgFirstSibutramine, GHRP-2
24.08.2016Mariya GrabovetskayaKazakhstanBeijing 2008Women’s over 75kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone, Oxandrolone, Stanozolol
24.08.2016Maya ManezaKazakhstanBeijing 2008Women’s 63kgDNFStanozolol
24.08.2016Irina NekrassovaKazakhstanBeijing 2008Women’s 63kgSecondStanozolol
24.08.2016Vladimir SedovKazakhstanBeijing 2008Men’s 85kgFourthStanozolol
24.08.2016Khadzhimurat AkkaevRussiaBeijing 2008Men’s 94kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
24.08.2016Dmitry LapikovRussiaBeijing 2008Men’s 105kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
24.08.2016Natalya DavydovaUkraineBeijing 2008Women’s 69kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
24.08.2016Olha KorobkaUkraineBeijing 2008Women’s over 75kgSecondDehydrochlormethyltestosterone
13.09.2016Anatoli CiricuMoldovaLondon 2012Men’s 94kgThirdDehydrochlormethyltestosterone