Jason Bryce Roberts is an Australian

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. He competed for Australia at

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in the Heavyweight division, winning three

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in the snatch,

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and overall events. His anti-drugs stand was noted in the 1990

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inquiry into drugs in sport. In 1992, Jason Roberts was vocally against the importation of Rumanian and

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weightlifters, specifically for the

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, on the grounds that they had no interest in migrating to Australia. Subsequently, following the Barcelona Games, most of them left Australia. Michael Noonan, the Executive Director of Australian Weightlifting Federation between 1990–1993, confirmed that AWF "bought" and supported the Bulgarians and Romanian weightlifters to come to Australia in the 1990s.

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