A Nigerian weightlifter stripped of a Commonwealth Games gold medal for doping when she was 16 years old has tested positive again and faces an eight-year ban from the sport.

them continental champions.The past seven Nigerian doping violations announced by the International Weightlifting

Rabat, but the local organising committee has informed the IWF that the number was six.The Egyptian Weightlifting

The Ghana Olympics Committee (GOC) and Ghana Football Association (GFA) have come together to try and inspire the nation to sporting success.

leaders in our various sporting disciplines must take decisions beneficial to all of us," GOC and Ghana Weightlifting

USA Weightlifting has welcomed the Canadian Weightlifting Federation (CWF) to its headquarters in Colorado

Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba and Alberta - spent two days discussing the turnaround of USA Weightlifting

enhance the experience of weightlifters in both federations.Since being appointed chief executive of USA Weightlifting

USA Weightlifting chief executive Phil Andrews, pictured here with International Weightlifting Federation

President Tamás Aján, has overseen a resurgence of the sport in the United States and abroad ©USA Weightlifting

He has also restructured the operations and governance of USA Weightlifting, and supported significant

The International Federation of Bodybuilding and Fitness (IFBB) is involved with four other governing bodies in planning the inaugural United Power Games to be held in Spain next year.

The IFBB has been working on a detailed project along with the International Weightlifting Federation

We consider it is time for the power sports.Tug of War, armwrestling, bodybuilding, weightlifting and

Hundreds of athletes and officials who went missing after last year's Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast have had their appeals for asylum rejected by the Australian Government, it has been reported.

 Rwanda's weightlifting coach fled the Games during a toilet break at Carrara Stadium.

Weightlifting's place on the Olympic Games schedule could once more come under threat because of attempts by Thailand to return to international competition, according to documents seen by insidethegames.

A letter sent to Tamas Ajan, President of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF), signed by

Thai athletes returned to the platform at international events.In March this year, the Thai Amateur Weightlifting

2019 IWF World Championships, which it hosted in Pattaya earlier this month.Thailand's most senior weightlifting

of the IOC executive board in its March 2019 decision to lift the provisional status of inclusion of weightlifting

existence by the IWF executive board in 2017, as one of many changes to anti-doping policy that helped weightlifting

The Guatemala Olympic Committee (COG) has signed a partnership agreement with the Hungarian Olympic Committee (HOC) at the Association of National Olympic Committees General Assembly in Doha.

President Gerardo René Aguirre Oestmann.The idea for a possible co-operation emerged at the Pan American Weightlifting

HOC's international relations and sports diplomacy committee and director-general of the International Weightlifting

 Guatemala claimed to have a particular interest in developing links in boxing, weightlifting, athletics

South Korea is among the countries competing at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships

Opening Ceremony began with the appearance of signs representing the 15 participating nations at the Weightlifting

historic qualifier for the 2022 FIFA World Cup last week ©Getty ImagesAction at the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting

Team Papua New Guinea Chef de Mission Tamzin Wardley has outlined her country's goals for next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo. 

, boxing, judo, karate, sailing, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, triathlon and weightlifting

Triple jumper Christian Taylor, weightlifter Kate Nye and the United States mixed 4x400m relay team have earned Best of September honours for the Team USA Awards, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee has announced.

age of 20, Nye, who won world junior gold in July, added three more golds at the senior International Weightlifting

earned them one of the Team USA Awards for September ©Getty ImagesShe became the youngest women’s world weightlifting

USA Weightlifting chief executive Phil Andrews believes athletics could learn from his sport, following

Committee (IOC) if it did not address doping issues in the sport.Andrews believes that the progress weightlifting

The decision of Egypt's National Olympic Committee to immediately suspend its weightlifting federation

Since being appointed chief executive of USA Weightlifting in April 2016, Andrews has been vocal in the

 USA Weightlifting has been working with USADA and the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF

Both the International Weightlifting Federation and domestically in USA Weightlifting, there are now

Egypt's Olympic Committee (EOC) has suspended its Weightlifting Federation after five more Egyptians

was suspended from the sport for two years only last month, and barred from the 2019 International Weightlifting

Egyptian Federation, whose President Mahmoud Mahgoub sits on the Executive Board of the International Weightlifting

Sarah Ahmed was the poster girl for female Egyptian weightlifting ©Getty ImagesThe latest positive tests

USA Luge have joined forces with Rapid Reboot as they seek to improve training recovery periods for athletes and help them reach the next level of sport performance.

 "We use the system after sliding sessions and/or weightlifting sessions to get the muscle soreness

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) President Tamás Aján has claimed the recently-concluded

further, completing the #iLiftClean comprehensive e-learning course developed in partnership with USA Weightlifting

iLiftClean booth, Aján said: "The IWF has much to be proud of in the way we have worked to ensure that weightlifting

A general secretaries seminar for sports federations was held by the National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NOCZ) to ensure good governance.

were all present at the seminar at Lusaka's Radisson Blu Hotel.Also present were delegates from Zambia Weightlifting