MOSCOW: Russian Sport Minister Vitaly Mutko said a decision by the International Weightlifting Federation to ban Russia weightlifters from the Rio Olympics was like 'a psychotic episode', R-Sport news agency reported on Thursday. 'It is a psychotic episode, as if it is dictated, accompanied by a departure from the principals and norms,' R-Sport quoted Mutko as saying. 'How can you punish a team which should go to the Olympic Games in 2016 for violations from 2008 or 2012? I don't know.'